David Simon Quotes - Page 5

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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.

  David Simon

  Jobs, Attitude, Real

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

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• Nobody reads anymore in America. Reading has become the least effective delivery system for narrative. That's sad because prose is the means by which you can deliver very complicated, nuanced explanations of problems and possible solutions.

  David Simon

  Reading, Mean, America

  Source: progressive.org

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• A TV show can't hold people and institutions to account like good journalism can.

  David Simon

  Tv Shows, People, Tvs

  Source: progressive.org

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• I'm making a lot of money. I should be paying a lot more taxes. I'm not paying taxes at a rate that is even close to what people were paying under Eisenhower. Do people think America wasn't ascendant and wasn't an upwardly mobile society under Eisenhower in the '50s? Nobody was looking at the country then and thinking to themselves, "We're taxing ourselves into oblivion." Yet there isn't a politician with balls enough to tell that truth because the whole system has been muddied by the rich. It's been purchased.

  David Simon

  Country, Thinking, America

  Source: progressive.org

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• Our future can't be separated from the fact that we are all going to be increasingly compacted into urban areas, though we're different in race and culture and religion. And what we make of that will determine the American future.

  David Simon

  Race, Different, Culture

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• There were a lot of video store owners and managers out of work, once pornography became more about streaming and downloads. But the other thing is that there are a lot of people who make money by finding a place to stand and add almost nothing. It's particularly ironic if your job title is pimp. On some level, in a healthier world where sex work could be rationalized and the risk reduced, your whole job title would be extraneous anyway. It's not exactly a point of great grievance if you're a pimp that suddenly your prostitutes don't require the same level of reliance.

  David Simon

  People, Pimp, Risk

  Source: uproxx.com

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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.

  David Simon

  Thinking, Election, Misogyny

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• We didn't create the culture of film. We certainly market it better than anyone in the world, but film could have happened anywhere. It's not distinctly American, as witnessed by the fact that there are film communities throughout the world that tell stories to their own cultural liking.

  David Simon

  Community, Culture, Stories

  Source: progressive.org

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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.

  David Simon

  Thinking, Dramatic, Sexuality

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Not only did this new pornography industry change the way men look at women and how we relate to sex, how we sell stuff, and not only did it change America's cultural landscape - it's also this incredible metaphor for a market-based economy. The great pyramid scheme that America has become. I felt like in were larger themes in terms of culture and economics that could be addressed.

  David Simon

  Men, Culture, Incredibles

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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

  David Simon

  Pornography

  Source: uproxx.com

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