William E. Simon Quotes
Personal liberty without economic liberty is an absolute contradiction; the one cannot exist without the other.
Quotes to Explore
-
My father got me involved in the game when I was four years old.
-
My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.
-
Nobody can prepare you for the loss of a parent.
-
I was born and raised in Manhattan; I didn't realize that I, in all my androgyny, was a freak to the rest of this country.
-
Why should I stop working? If I do, I'll die and it'll all be finished.
-
My work... is my legacy.
-
Boating on the lake is one of my favorite summer activities.
-
In talking to you I feel very much more at ease than my colleagues who gave the speeches during the banquet.
-
I've set the bar quite high in terms of storytelling.
-
I certainly have a pretty settled pattern at this point of what I do substantively in terms of reviewing briefs, record materials, cases, etc.
-
I don't mind a bikini bottom.
-
SNAP is a critical anti-hunger program that feeds millions of low income Americans, including children, veterans, and seniors who would not otherwise have the resources to buy groceries.
-
Napster has pointed the way for a new direction for music distribution, and we believe it will form the basis of important and exciting new business models for the future of the music industry.
-
Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
-
You don't need a machine to make pasta: a rolling pin and a fast hand can create a smooth, if thick, sheet.
-
Since Star Wars, that film's success led to bigger budgets, more hardware, that the great movies like the ones I did, which were studio movies, are now independent movies. They range from half a million to several million, and a lot of those have very interesting roles.
-
With a film, you can get into it and love it. With music, you can listen to over and over again, but with music videos, they're like this short little stab.
-
I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too thoroughly, but I think that all mountaineers do get a great deal of satisfaction out of overcoming some challenge which they think is very difficult for them, or which perhaps may be a little dangerous.
-
When I walked into the house, I went in search of one of my dad's bottles. Not that they were that hard to find. He hid bottles all over the house. I knew where they all were. That was one of my hobbies, finding where my dad hid his bottles. It was my version of looking for Easter eggs. In my house, Easter lasted forever.
-
During the 1930s, some of the leading intellectuals in America condemned our economic system and pointed to the centrally planned Soviet economy as a model -- all this at a time when literally millions of people were starving to death in the Soviet Union, from a famine in a country with some of the richest farmland in Europe and historically a large exporter of food.
-
She leaned into my shoulder. "Maybe you don't have to be a Caster to have power." I pushed her hair behind her ear. "Maybe you just have to fall for one.
-
In America, an acquittal doesn't mean you're innocent, it means you beat the rap. My clients lose even when they win.
-
Personal liberty without economic liberty is an absolute contradiction; the one cannot exist without the other.
