David Simon Quotes - Page 3

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• With more than 80 percent of Americans living in metropolitan areas, there are still demagogues who want to run down the idea of multiculturalism, of urbanity, being the only future we have. We either live or die based on how we live in cities, and our society is either going to be great or not based on how we perform as creatures of the city.

  David Simon

  Running, Cities, Ideas

  Source: progressive.org

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• I don't consider myself to be a crusader of any sort. I was bystander to a certain number of newspaper crusades. They end badly, in terms of being either fraudulent or by inspiring legislations that makes things worse. So, I regard myself as someone coming to the campfire with the truest possible narrative he can acquire.

  David Simon

  Bystanders, Numbers, Narrative

  "Behind The Wire". Interview with Meghan O'Rourke, www.slate.com. December 1, 2006.

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• We are innately creative beings capable of writing a love story worth living, and we cannot afford to miss out on the opportunity to experience nourishing relationships.

  David Simon

  Writing, Opportunity, Missing

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• In Baltimore they can't do police work to save their lives. Now because of Freddie Gray they're not even getting out of the car and policing corners - they're on a job slowdown, basically. Right now if the police stopped being brutal, if we got police shooting under control, and the use of excessive force, if we have a meaningful societal response to all that stuff, and the racism that underlies it, the question still remains: what are they policing, and why?

  David Simon

  Meaningful, Car, Racism

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Healing is the process of reestablishing the integration between body, mind, and spirit, creating opportunities for the return of the memory of wholeness.

  David Simon

  Memories, Healing, Opportunity

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• I had a great editor, Rebecca Corbett, from the time I was a city reporter right through to the years I worked on the 'Sun's' enterprise reporting team.

  David Simon

  Team, Years, Editors

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• I've never met anyone with a perfect upbringing. It seems to me that life on planet Earth just doesn't work that way. The basic challenges of getting our needs met and managing boundaries are inherent in growing up human.

  David Simon

  Growing Up, Perfect, Challenges

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• I'm just a swell guy. No, that's a ridiculous notion - if you're being an asshole to people, you're being an asshole, that's all there is to it. It can't be rationalized because you wrote something worthwhile. First obligation is to other people.

  David Simon

  People, Guy, Ridiculous

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Meditation is like a bath for the mind; it clears and refreshes our windows of perception, allowing more light, love, and happiness to flow into lives.

  David Simon

  Light, Meditation, Perception

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• Eventually, someone is going to pick up a brick.

  David Simon

  Bricks, Picks

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• Albert Camus, a great humanist and existentialist voice, pointed out that to commit to a just cause with no hope of success is absurd. But then, he also noted that not committing to a just cause is equally absurd. But only one choice offers the possibility for dignity. And dignity matters. Dignity matters.

  David Simon

  Voice, Choices, Matter

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• I'd love if people relearned the lessons of the 20th century all over again. Which is to say this country progressed economically and socially when we had a better balance between capital and labor. Neither capital or labor won every argument. The battle between the two created economic tension, and transformed the working class into the middle class, and grew the economy.

  David Simon

  Country, People, Balance

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• It is your birthright to live a life abundant in love. Make the commitment today to open your heart and let your love flow.

  David Simon

  Heart, Commitment, Today

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• The mismanagement of American newspapering is quite remarkable. But all of the fellows responsible are now on a golf course in Hilton Head or some such (place), having secured their bonuses and golden-parachute buyouts.

  David Simon

  Golf, Bonus, Golden

  Interview with David Doody, www.utne.com. September 2011.

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• Eating a meal with full awareness can be a powerful, enlightening, and healing experience.

  David Simon

  Powerful, Food, Healing

  David Simon, M.D. (1999). “Return to Wholeness: Embracing Body, Mind, and Spirit in the Face of Cancer”, Wiley

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• That's what we were interested in: how power and money ran itself, much more so than 'drugs are bad, drugs are good.' That seems to me a simple moral equation and one you don't have to spend 60 hours of television examining. And I think the same thing is true with how we approached pornography or prostitution. Prostitution's been around since the Bible, and pornography's been around since about 15 minutes after the French guy invented the first camera.

  David Simon

  Simple, Thinking, Guy

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• While I think storytelling is a meaningful way to spend your life... it does feel a little bit secondary or off-point.

  David Simon

  Meaningful, Thinking, Way

  "'The Wire' writer David Simon among MacArthur genius grant winners" by Dan Zak, www.washingtonpost.com. September 28, 2010.

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• You shoot another guy—well, okay, this is Baltimore. You shoot three guys, it’s time to admit you have a problem.

  David Simon

  Guy, Three, Baltimore

  David Simon (2008). “Homicide: A Year On The Killing Streets”, p.170, Canongate Books

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• How do we allow God into our minds, bodies, relationships, and life? We stop squeezing the divine out through our preconceived notions of what is sacred and what is profane. When we assume the mind-set that everything is ultimately divine, though sometimes more disguised than others, then we can see that all of our thoughts, impulses, and desires arise from and can bring us back to awareness of the sacred.

  David Simon

  Mind, Desire, Body

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• We're now seeing levels of inequality raise their heads that we haven't seen since the age of the robber barons. If somebody watched The Deuce, and understood the allegory about capital and labor, and understands what happens when one side is vulnerable to the other, that would be swell.

  David Simon

  Age, Vulnerable, Inequality

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• When we spend time in silence, we can hear the voice of our soul whispering its sacred message and encouraging us to make choices that bring us more happiness, health, love, meaning, and peace.

  David Simon

  Voice, Choices, Silence

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• On a practical level I'm a TV producer and storyteller who's gone about as long as you can go without achieving a mass audience.

  David Simon

  Long, Gone, Levels

  "The Wire creator David Simon wins 'genius' grant" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2010.

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• Life is too short to carry the burden of a heavy heart. It does not serve you or anyone else. Free yourself through the power of forgiveness and compassion.

  David Simon

  Life Is Too Short, Heart, Compassion

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• The same creative force that generated the universe created your body. It is vibrating with intelligence and spirit. It is ultimately sacred and worthy of your love, respect and intention. Take good care of it and nourish it with the most healing, life-sustaining foods, experiences, and sensory impressions.

  David Simon

  Healing, Creative, Body

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• It's been said that no man is a hero to a newspaperman, and I spent too many years as an ink-stained wretch.

  David Simon

  Hero, Men, Years

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