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TARYN SIMON With 'The Simpsons,' people didn't know what they were gonna see. They didn't have a... SAM SIMON I'd rather be nauseous than tired, I think. SAM SIMON I'm supporting the charities that I supported during my lifetime, and I want to continue to do t... SAM SIMON 'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thoug... SAM SIMON I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work. SAM SIMON One of the things about animal rights, which is not the only thing that I care about in this world, ... SAM SIMON The truth is, I have more money than I'm interested in spending. Everyone in my family is taken ... SAM SIMON Work made me crazy. I was tough to get along with. SAM SIMON I don't believe in miracles. SAM SIMON I am a big PETA supporter, and their East Coast headquarters is the Sam Simon building, and their We... SAM SIMON A lot of charities spend a million dollars on a fundraiser to make $15,000. It's a social swirl.... SAM SIMON I want to do whatever I can to survive. SAM SIMON I don't think the spirit of Hollywood is such a spirit of generosity. I think people really begr... SAM SIMON Veganism is an answer for almost every problem facing the world in terms of hunger and climate chang... SAM SIMON The sort of lifetime achievement stuff that I'm getting now is kind of like Tom Sawyer's fun... SAM SIMON There are certain times you realize you've got too much money. One was when I started getting bi... SAM SIMON When people make donations to non profits, they want to know that their money goes to good use. SAM SIMON Boxing should probably be banned. But until then, I'm a big fan. SAM SIMON Through PETA, we rescue animals in roadside zoos and circuses. They are some of the most abused anim... SAM SIMON SIMON SINEK SIMON SINEK SIMON SINEK SIMON SINEK SIMON SINEK SIMON SINEK If I said to most of the people who auditioned, 'Good job, awesome, well done,' it would hav... 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ALAN SIMON It's pretty much a lull in the action. We're looking forward to the next few years. ALAN SIMON SIMON MAINWARING If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then t... SIMON RATTLE As a child growing up in a grey-skied Yorkshire village, I would occasionally happen upon a Bollywoo... SIMON BEAUFOY Whether they run a record company or a grocery store, every boss will tell you you're in big tro... SIMON COWELL Don't borrow someone else's spectacles to view yourself with. SIMON TRAVAGLIA I work out three or four times a week, I have Botox, take tons of vitamins and vitamin infusions - i... SIMON COWELL I've had Botox, but then again pretty much everyone I know has. To me, Botox is no more unusual ... SIMON COWELL I get paid very well and am happy with what I make, but I'm not in the super-rich bracket. I sho... SIMON BIRD SIMON HOGGART SIMON SINEK SIMON MAINWARING SIMON MAINWARING The golden age is before us, not behind us. ST. 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The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth ce... 
My next book is also set in the eighteenth century. It's about the Revolution, with the focus on... 
Soldiers of the American Revolution fought that 18th century war with heavy muskets. In the early 20... 
In the middle of the nineteenth century, the United States embarked on a new relationship with death... 
The great crimes of the twentieth century were committed not by money-grubbing capitalists but by d... 
By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We als... 
One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith w... 
Before the 20th century, the ulcer was not a respectable disease. Doctors would say, 'You're... 
In the closing years of the nineteenth century, African-American historians began to look at their p... 
Simon Bolivar is the leader of the revolution of this land. He is the leader of the social revolutio... 
It is useful to compare the Branch Davidians with the Mormons of the mid-nineteenth century. The Mor... 
When the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century brought a rapid increase in wealth, the dem... 
If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatris... 
The interaction of disparate cultures, the vehemence of the ideals that led the immigrants here, the... 
The nineteenth century planted the words which the twentieth century ripened into the atrocities of ... 
Machines were the ideal metaphor for the central pornographic fantasy of the nineteenth century, rap... 
The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revol... 
Our freedoms were born in the ideals of the Enlightenment and the musket fires of an historic revolu... 
The seventeenth-century baby slept, as his nineteenth-century descendant does, in a cradle. Nothing ... 
Before the professionalization of architecture in the nineteenth century, it was standard for an asp... 
The drug war has been a war where the direct casualties have primarily been America's poor; Amer... 
Most Americans haven't had my happy experience of living for thirteen years in a seventeenth-cen... 
Top 1 Percent progressivism emphasizes the idea of fairness - but it's nevertheless a politics o... 
There's the tradition of the 19th-century ballets, and the 20th century has had a difficult time... 
The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and t... 
There's definitely a pattern of great British shows that get reinvented in America and do really... 
America was probably Europe's equal scientifically by the end of World War I and certainly surpa... 
In America, anyone can become president. That's one of the risks you take. 
Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bomb... 
The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of 'Tales from Li... 
I went into politics thinking that, if I made arguments in good faith, I'd get a hearing. It'... 
Nothing existed outside ourselves and school. For us, the world of politics, social revolution, the ... 
John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II... 
The French Revolution actualised the Enlightenment's greatest intellectual breakthrough: detachi... 
By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was jus... 
By the end of the nineteenth century, the stereotype of the ugly American - voracious, preachy, merc... 
If you live in a democracy, it's very tiring to be always surrounded by great and high abstract ... 
For thousands of years, it had been nature--and its supposed creator--that had had a monopoly on awe... 
Latinos have fought in all of America's wars, beginning with the Revolutionary War. Many Latinos... 
As to the history of the revolution, my ideas may be peculiar, perhaps singular. What do we mean by ... 
But above all, what this Congress can be remembered for is opening the way to a new American revolut... 
The early versions of 'Shell's Wonderful World of Golf' were great. It's sort of int... 
The African American's relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent, at least since the early... 
It's not coincidental that America's vigorous recovery in the early 1980s was led by a presi... 
The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not. 
Following the end of the Cold War, there was much discussion concerning the point of NATO. In the ev... 
Let's bring it up to date with some snappy nineteenth century dialogue 
It is fast becoming an article of political faith that financing America's public schools by way... 
Turkey tail mushrooms have been used to treat various maladies for hundreds of years in Asia, Europe... 
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Anthropology seems so bland and friendly now, but in the early 20th century, Jews could only be diss... 
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There are not fifty ways of fighting, there's only one, and that's to win. Neither revolutio... 
People are not soured by misfortune, but by the reception they meet with in it. 
After many, many years, I fell out of love with politics. It's not something I like but it's... 
Both World War II and the subsequent Cold War gave America's involvement in world affairs a clea... 
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Very early in life, it seemed to me that there was a relationship between the problems of the Negro ... 
Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly. 
I cannot sufficiently celebrate the glorious liberty that reigns in the public libraries of the twen... 
Since the Revolution, eight generations of America's veterans have established an unbroken commi... 
If we want to live freely and privately in the interconnected world of the twenty-first century - an... 
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Oga. Watu hawaogi ndiyo maana wachafu. Kuoga ni lazima kutumia maji. Ukitaka kuoga neno, tumia maji;... 
There are in me the seeds from which, if necessary, the universe could be constructed. In me somewhe... 
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All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest. 
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Don't listen to those who say, you taking too big a chance. Michelangelo would have painted the Sist... 
It is a comfort to the unfortunate to have companions in woe.
[Lat., Solamen miseris socios habuis... 
Champagne Wishes and Caviar Dreams. 
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A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars. 
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My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men.