You have the capacity to change the plotline of your life, even if you've been acting from the same script since before… — David Simon Acting Copy Share Image
What writer wants to make compromises with story? Story is the only reason you're in it. — David Simon Compromises Copy Share Image
We have no sense of the collective anymore in America. The response to Katrina was proof positive of that. — David Simon America Copy Share Image
There are a couple of ideas for features that I would love to do. They happen to be comedies. — David Simon Comedies Copy Share Image
A TV show can't hold people and institutions to account like good journalism can. — David Simon Copy Share Image
While I think storytelling is a meaningful way to spend your life... it does feel a little bit secondary or off-point. — David Simon Copy Share Image
To be told you've won a MacArthur fellowship is very flattering and gratifying personally. — David Simon Fellowship Copy Share Image
I think what you've seen from Donald Trump is this whole election cycle, there's been a level of misogyny that has become… — David Simon Election Copy Share Image
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,… — David Simon Copy Share Image
Life is too short to carry the burden of a heavy heart. It does not serve you or anyone else. Free yourself… — David Simon Burden Copy Share Image
“(sergeant thinking about an excellent detective who's threatening to quit) For a squad sergeant, having Worden working for you was like having… — David Simon Copy Share Image
Awakening to who we really are is at the heart of yoga. . . .Yoga offers a path to this underlying field… — David Simon Abundance Copy Share Image
I would be lying if I said the journalism doesn't reflect my own choices as a reporter and a writer: what to… — David Simon Choices Copy Share Image
It seems that in Baltimore, one of the most violent cities in America, jurors are far more reluctant to convict criminal defendants… — David Simon America Copy Share Image
If I had to guess and put a name on it, I'd say that at some point, the drug war was as… — David Simon Class Copy Share Image
From a spiritual perspective, freedom from attachment to a particular outcome is the ultimate expression of liberation. We can choose the actions… — David Simon Action Copy Share Image
I come from a country that is now utterly schizophrenic when it comes to its society, its economy, its politics. There are… — David Simon America Copy Share Image
There were a lot of video store owners and managers out of work, once pornography became more about streaming and downloads. But… — David Simon Grievance Copy Share Image
How that happened - how the money and the power arrayed itself and who got the share in that, who got cut… — David Simon Copy Share Image
Healing from our past is an essential aspect of expanding our sense of self and awakening our capacity to love. This shift… — David Simon Copy Share Image
You have the capacity to change the plot line of your life, even if you've been acting from the same script since… — David Simon Acting Copy Share Image
The rest of America, with some small exceptions, has been bulldozed and rebuilt and then bulldozed and rebuilt again. Our places have… — David Simon America Copy Share Image
I feel like if you know any women who's an essayist or a writer or a public speaker or just a public… — David Simon Copy Share Image
If I were a person of color in Florida, I would pick up a brick and start walking toward that courthouse in… — David Simon Betrayal Copy Share Image
The best # gift we can give in any interaction is to leave people feeling lighter, # happier , and more at # peace . — David Simon Best gift Copy Share Image
People from here will often say, "I'm not from the United States, I'm from New Orleans." — David Simon New orleans Copy Share Image
In the wake of Katrina, what you're witnessing and what we are very careful to depict is a form of patriotism. — David Simon Copy Share Image
Every day, human beings are worth less. That's the triumph of capitalism. The money gets made, and the fewer people we need… — David Simon Capitalism Copy Share Image
It is your birthright to live a life abundant in love. Make the commitment today to open your heart and let your… — David Simon Birthright Copy Share Image
You shoot another guy—well, okay, this is Baltimore. You shoot three guys, it’s time to admit you have a problem. — David Simon Baltimore Copy Share Image
The greatest contribution we can make to the wellbeing of those in our lives is to have peace in our own hearts. — David Simon Contribution Copy Share Image
You can't make a good show based on pure verisimilitude, pure anti-drama. But you have to acknowledge a lot of ordinary life.… — David Simon Copy Share Image
A little anger is a good thing if it isn't on your own behalf, if it's for others deserving of your anger,… — David Simon Anger Copy Share Image
On a practical level I'm a TV producer and storyteller who's gone about as long as you can go without achieving a… — David Simon Copy Share Image
Meditation is like a bath for the mind; it clears and refreshes our windows of perception, allowing more light, love, and happiness… — David Simon Copy Share Image
The beauty of love is that in giving it away, you are left with more than you had before. — David Simon Beauty Copy Share Image
Those...who insist that there are some moral limits that they will not violate, are forever surprising themselves. — David Simon Character Copy Share Image
Any music can be healing if it inspires, relaxes, encourages or creates enthusiasm for life in you. — David Simon Enthusiasm Copy Share Image
I always tell Lawrence Gilliard Jr. he never got a decent bite of the apple, so I was happy we had a… — David Simon Copy Share Image
You are worthy of love and you deserve to be happy. You have these beautiful qualities and many more because you are… — David Simon Beautiful Copy Share Image
