William E. Simon Quotes

Personal liberty without economic liberty is an absolute contradiction; the one cannot exist without the other.

William E. Simon

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• My father got me involved in the game when I was four years old.

  

  Natalie Gulbis
  • Father
  • Game
  • Involved

• My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • People
  • Father
  • Guy

• Nobody can prepare you for the loss of a parent.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Parent
  • Loss
  • Prepare

• 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.

  

  iO Tillett Wright
  • Country
  • Rest
  • Realize

• Why should I stop working? If I do, I'll die and it'll all be finished.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Why
  • Stop
  • Die

• My work... is my legacy.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Work
  • Legacy

• Boating on the lake is one of my favorite summer activities.

  

  Carl Hagelin
  • Summer
  • Favorite
  • Lake

• In talking to you I feel very much more at ease than my colleagues who gave the speeches during the banquet.

  

  Felix Bloch
  • Feel
  • Talking
  • Colleagues

• I've set the bar quite high in terms of storytelling.

  

  E. L. James
  • High
  • Storytelling
  • Bar

• I certainly have a pretty settled pattern at this point of what I do substantively in terms of reviewing briefs, record materials, cases, etc.

  

  Patricia Millett
  • Pretty
  • Point
  • Materials

• I don't mind a bikini bottom.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Mind
  • Bottom
  • Bikini

• 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.

  

  Dan Maffei
  • Children
  • Income
  • Veterans

• 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.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Important

• Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Always
  • Religious
  • Books

• You don't need a machine to make pasta: a rolling pin and a fast hand can create a smooth, if thick, sheet.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • You
  • Hand
  • Fast

• 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.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • Great
  • Success
  • Interesting

• 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.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Music
  • Love
  • Short

• 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.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Great
  • May
  • Challenge

• Ours is a kind of struggle designed, I dare say, by Providence to try the patience, fortitude, and virtue of men. None, therefore, who is engaged in it, will suffer himself, I trust, to sink under difficulties, or be discouraged by hardships. If he cannot do as he wishes, he must do what he can.

  

  George Washington
  • Men
  • Trying
  • Wish

• I know guys in my hometown that drive by feel and sound.

  

  Evel Knievel
  • Feel
  • Drive
  • Hometown

• For me, acting is about the art of it and it's about being on a film set and doing your thing, painting a blank canvas.

  

  Shailene Woodley
  • Art
  • Film
  • Painting

• Personal liberty without economic liberty is an absolute contradiction; the one cannot exist without the other.

  

  William E. Simon
  • Liberty
  • Economic
  • Contradiction