William E. Simon Quotes
Achievers must not be penalized or parasites rewarded if we aspire to a healthy, productive, and ethical society.
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I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.
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I went to college, though I didn't take many writing courses.
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The best advice that was given to me was that I had to be 10 times smarter, braver and more polite to be equal. So I did.
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I write what I'd like to read and just hope that, along the way, others might like to read them, too.
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The Taliban is the Muslim version of the Salem witch trials.
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I'm a big 'American Idol' watcher, and sometimes I like to watch 'America's Got Talent.' Those are big, corny admissions, but sometimes it's so fun to see those kids really sing their hearts out.
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If you don't have a unique voice, then you're not really a writer.
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Turning 18 is a big deal.
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The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make us human, for collecting memory.
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For more than a quarter of a century on active duty, my house has been my tent, and my home the battlefield.
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A secret is powerful when it is empty.
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There may be 10 odd things which I want to do as an actor, and we get an opportunity also, but I need to be sure whether the person I am trusting or the role that I am relying on - is it the correct one?
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No state can match the beauty of the Chesapeake Bay, our beaches and farms, or the mountains of Western Maryland, the Port of Baltimore, or the historic charm of every corner of our state.
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If any human being is to reach full maturity both the masculine and feminine sides of the personality must be brought up into consciousness.
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Green how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches.
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A musician is a professional, whether he or she is successful or not. The profession itself must be regarded as a stable job.
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A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.
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The victory march will continue until the Palestinian flag flies in Jerusalem and in all of Palestine.
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Computer : a million morons working at the speed of light.
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Our job as writers is to listen, to come home to the four corners of the earth.
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I don't think I'm unlike a lot of people. I am just someone who is trying to find that mate, and I think it's a really hard thing to do.
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Take care of yourself, be healthy, and always believe you can be successful in anything you truly want.
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There are two aspects to making movies: One is the feeling of wanting to push myself into stuff that I don't know how to do. Then there's the other impulse to try and earn a living. I want to be careful about not confusing those too much - not that those things can't have a healthy overlap. Plenty of people start out making work that isn't terribly commercial, and then make work that's more commercial but still good. You just want to watch out for that thing where you tell yourself that you're doing your best work when you're not.
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Achievers must not be penalized or parasites rewarded if we aspire to a healthy, productive, and ethical society.
