Bill Simon Quotes

Since last year I've been making the rounds talking to just about anyone who'll listen about this opportunity to re-establish a manufacturing base in the U.S.

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• Some days, I'll tell you that everything in life was meant to be and that there is an order to the universe. Other days, I'm convinced it's all a combination of luck and opportunity.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Life
  • Opportunity
  • Universe

• One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

  

  Harold Coffin
  • Years
  • More
  • Contentment

• Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

  

  Vance Havner
  • Doing
  • More
  • Talking

• I was on a well-beaten path of actors - what we all call 'the Law and Order route'. I spent two years of auditioning for everything... and then 'The Wire' came up.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Up
  • Law
  • Years

• In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Years
  • Baseball
  • Idea

• 'Paper Planes' was an accident. It wasn't a song we made for the masses. It took two years to get popular, and there were many fights about censoring the gunshot sounds.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Song
  • Years
  • Popular

• Many years ago, I really didn't know where the next work was coming from.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Work
  • Know
  • Years

• I'm a Golden Globe nominee, yes. It's very nice. It's a very nice thing, but I kind of think of all the awards I wasn't ever nominated for, for years and things.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • Think
  • Nice
  • Years

• I would rather do twenty TV series than go through what I went through under that Rank contract I signed a few years ago for which I blame no one but myself.

  

  Patrick McGoohan
  • Myself
  • Years
  • Blame

• Couture has copied my things for years, in addition to countless other costume designers, claiming theirs were the original ideas. It's all part of the business, unfortunately.

  

  Edith Head
  • Business
  • Ideas
  • Years

• Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Great
  • Opportunity
  • Chance

• For 50 years my father worked for the railroad.

  

  Harold Evans
  • Father
  • Years
  • Railroad

• We are the representatives of the cosmos; we are an example of what hydrogen atoms can do, given 15 billion years of cosmic evolution.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Years
  • Evolution
  • Example

• Whatever their defects, Christian fundamentalists have lived peacefully among us in America for several hundred years.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • America
  • Christian
  • Years

• Work is transformative. It gives you a greater chance of a greater income. You can affect your life while you're of working age, so you have scope and opportunity. Pensioners do not.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Life
  • Work
  • Age

• I just hate meetings. Though it's true that once you've made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don't want to seize every opportunity to do so.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • People
  • Money
  • True

• As long as I am given the opportunity to keep performing and keep exploring in whatever medium, I'll be happy. As long as I get to spend time with my family, I'll be happy. As long as I can write in some form, I'll be happy. It is the essential things like that I equate with happiness.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Time
  • Long
  • Family

• I think it's tragic that we have this human capacity, which appears to be hardwired, or so the evolutionary biologists say, for collective joy. We have these techniques for generating it that go back thousands of years, and yet we tend not to use this.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Think
  • Joy
  • Years

• I feel like everybody, whether you have one follower or a million followers, has an opportunity to either positively or negatively affect people.

  

  Tyler Oakley
  • People
  • Opportunity

• It is fundamentally important in our system of government that every American be given the opportunity to vote, regardless of who they are, where they live, and what their race or national origin may be.

  

  Lisa Murkowski
  • Important
  • Live
  • May

• I don't know who's 18 years old today that, 20 years hence, is going to be a jazz fan.

  

  Norman Granz
  • Today
  • Years
  • Knows

• In America, one of our challenges, historically, is that we have very low voting rates, even during presidential elections.

  

  Barack Obama
  • America
  • Presidential
  • Voting

• It has been very erotic and provocative for people to wonder about my feelings for women.

  

  Catherine Deneuve
  • Women
  • Wonder
  • Feelings

• Since last year I've been making the rounds talking to just about anyone who'll listen about this opportunity to re-establish a manufacturing base in the U.S.

  

  Bill Simon
  • Opportunity
  • Years
  • Talking