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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Love is blind, friends close their eyes.
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Make-up can only make you look pretty on the outside but it doesn't help if your ugly on the inside. Unless you eat the make-up.
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I really think music in school is vital. Some pivotal moments in my life were my childhood scholastic experiences with music - teachers who found out I could sing, and encouraged me, or teachers who turned me on to music or bands I hadn't yet heard.
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Achievers must not be penalized or parasites rewarded if we aspire to a healthy, productive, and ethical society.
