David Simon Quotes - Page 4

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• Genuine inner freedom is the ultimate aim of life. It is the unspoken goal of every thought you have and every action you take.

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  Goal, Aim Of Life, Action

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• What drugs have not destroyed, the war on them has

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  War, Drug, Destroyed

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• I encourage you from the depths of my heart and being to know that you have the full capacity and the right to make changes that will enliven your awareness, raise the succulent joy in your heart, and experience the vitality that comes from living in balance.

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  Heart, Joy, Balance

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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.

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  Country, People, Balance

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• There are a couple of ideas for features that I would love to do. They happen to be comedies.

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  Couple, Ideas, Comedy

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• Those...who insist that there are some moral limits that they will not violate, are forever surprising themselves.

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  Forever, Limits, Moral

  David Simon, Edward Burns (2013). “The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood”, p.92, Broadway Books

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• Acceptance means focusing on the present while assessing the choices available to you in this moment. If there are many possibilities, make the choice that is likely to bring the most evolutionary results. If there is only one choice, take it. If there are no obvious choices, relax and accept the fact that for now, you cannot do anything.

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  Mean, Acceptance, Choices

  David Simon, M.D. (2010). “The Ten Commitments: Translating Good Intentions into Great Choices”, p.56, Health Communications, Inc.

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• Pornography has become rationalized. It's become much more coherent and profitable.

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  Pornography

  Source: uproxx.com

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• All stress is ultimately related to loss or the fear of loss.

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  Stress, Loss, Related

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

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• Boiled down to its core, the truth is always a simple, solid thing

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  Simple, Truth Is, Core

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• I would be lying if I said the journalism doesn't reflect my own choices as a reporter and a writer: what to say, what to emphasize, how to say it, what is true or untrue.

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  Lying, Choices, Would Be

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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.

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  Age, Vulnerable, Inequality

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The greatest contribution we can make to the wellbeing of those in our lives is to have peace in our own hearts. When our hearts are filled with gratitude and our minds are brimming with enthusiasm, everyone we encounter leaves our space feeling a little bit lighter than when they entered it.

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  Gratitude, Heart, Space

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• If I were a person of color in Florida, I would pick up a brick and start walking toward that courthouse in Sanford. Those that do not, those that hold the pain and betrayal inside and somehow manage to resist violence - these citizens are testament to a stoic tolerance that is more than the rest of us deserve. I confess, their patience and patriotism is well beyond my own.

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  Pain, Betrayal, Florida

  "David Simon On George Zimmerman Verdict: I’m ‘Ashamed’ To Identify As American" by Kia Makarechi, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 16, 2013.

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• What drugs haven't destroyed, the war against them has

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  War, Drug, Havens

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• I think what you've seen from Donald Trump is this whole election cycle, there's been a level of misogyny that has become certain and fixed.

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  Thinking, Election, Misogyny

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Baltimore's often called the most northern Southern town. It has a distinct essence. It's definitely post-industrial, definitely Rust Belt, very working-class. I grew up outside of Washington, and I felt I was moving to a completely different place when I moved 30 miles north out of college.

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  Moving, College, Essence

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• Any music can be healing if it inspires, relaxes, encourages or creates enthusiasm for life in you.

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  Healing, Enthusiasm For Life, Inspire

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

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• There came this point where I sat down with all my notebooks and I had to start to write, when I thought: this whole notion of writing for the person who understands nothing, the average reader ... He has to die! I can't have him in my head. And so the person I started writing for was the homicide detective.

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  Notebook, Writing, Average

  "Arrogant? Moi?". Interview with Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. March 27, 2009.

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• Sex work is a completely unregulated industry and to make the affront even worse, the product and the labourers are the same thing! The product is the sexuality of the actual labourers: flesh. I think in that sense, the exploitative nature of unencumbered capitalism is made even more dramatic.

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  Thinking, Dramatic, Sexuality

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• For a detective or street police, the only real satisfaction is the work itself; when a cop spends more and more time getting aggravated with the details, he's finished. The attitude of co-workers, the indifference of superiors, the poor quality of the equipment - all of it pales if you still love the job; all of it matters if you don't.

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  Jobs, Attitude, Real

  David Simon (2008). “Homicide: A Year On The Killing Streets”, p.613, Canongate Books

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• From a spiritual perspective, freedom from attachment to a particular outcome is the ultimate expression of liberation. We can choose the actions we take, but we cannot control the consequences of our choices.

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  Spiritual, Attachment, Expression

  David Simon, M.D. (2010). “The Ten Commitments: Translating Good Intentions into Great Choices”, p.28, Health Communications, Inc.

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• The trick to making a story matter is that every now and then, somebody you care about has to go. If it's somebody that you don't care about, then it doesn't really have - the stakes aren't there. But if you do that every now and then, then the story matters to people. And there are actual stakes involved, emotional stakes.

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  Emotional, People, Stories

  "'Wire' Creator David Simon Plays Not My Job". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. April 15, 2011.

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• If I had to guess and put a name on it, I'd say that at some point, the drug war was as much a function of class and social control as it was of racism.

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  War, Class, Names

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• Authenticity is an alignment between your beliefs, your desires and your choices in the world. Desires change throughout the course of a life, but agreement between ideals, aspirations and deeds is key to a life of peace, happiness and success.

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  Keys, Agreement, Choices

  David Simon, M.D. (2010). “The Ten Commitments: Translating Good Intentions into Great Choices”, p.33, Health Communications, Inc.

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