We are innately creative beings capable of writing a love story worth living, and we cannot afford to miss out on the… — David Simon Copy Share Image
We're now seeing levels of inequality raise their heads that we haven't seen since the age of the robber barons. If somebody… — David Simon Age Copy Share Image
Authenticity is an alignment between your beliefs, your desires and your choices in the world. Desires change throughout the course of a… — David Simon Agreement Copy Share Image
When we spend time in silence, we can hear the voice of our soul whispering its sacred message and encouraging us 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 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 believe a little shithead like this is able to stay on the run for so long?” McLarney declares, returning from yet… — David Simon Copy Share Image
Doesn't matter if you're fourteen or if you're eight, there's an incredible vernacular that I do believe has become more and more… — David Simon Copy Share Image
I don't consider myself to be a crusader of any sort. I was bystander to a certain number of newspaper crusades. They… — David Simon Copy Share Image
I'm making a lot of money. I should be paying a lot more taxes. I'm not paying taxes at a rate that… — David Simon America Copy Share Image
With more than 80 percent of Americans living in metropolitan areas, there are still demagogues who want to run down the idea… — 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
What we were trying to do was take the notion of Greek tragedy, of fated and doomed people, and instead of these… — David Simon Achilles Copy Share Image
I'd love if people relearned the lessons of the 20th century all over again. Which is to say this country progressed economically… — David Simon Copy Share Image
Only the human heart can live in present moment awareness. The human mind cannot, because its essential nature is to ponder the… — David Simon Awareness Copy Share Image
Reality is ultimately a selective act of perception and interpretation. A shift in our perception and interpretation enables us to break old… — David Simon Balance Copy Share Image
We either live or die based on how we live in cities, and our society is either going to be great or… — David Simon Cities Copy Share Image
Unless you loosen the hold that your past has on you, your future will unfold in much the same way . .… — David Simon Beautiful Copy Share Image
More people pay attention to fiction and to narrative than pay attention to journalism. That's quite sad. More people pay attention to… — David Simon Attention Copy Share Image
“The three-story derelict is home to Smitty, Gale, and Gale's baby - a nuclear family nested on the corner - and Ella… — David Simon Derelict Copy Share Image
One of the sad things about contemporary journalism is that it actually matters very little. The world now is almost inured to… — David Simon Copy Share Image
“[Y]ou are ... entrusted with the pursuit of that most extraordinary of crimes: the theft of a human life. You speak for… — David Simon Crime 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 Copy Share Image
It is your birthright to have a life of meaning and purpose. Whether or not the people in your life have consistently… — David Simon Appreciation Copy Share Image
Lawrence Gilliard Jr. is a fine actor and I've always felt some residual guilt that we killed him so early in The… — David Simon Guilt Copy Share Image
TV writers live life of well-paid, specialty prostitutes. We have a very special skill set and we occupy one of the higher… — David Simon Life Copy Share Image
The mismanagement of American newspapering is quite remarkable. But all of the fellows responsible are now on a golf course in Hilton… — David Simon Copy Share Image
“Everyone lies. Murderers lie because they have to; witnesses and other participants lie because they think they have to; everyone else lies… — David Simon Lies Copy Share Image
I had a great editor, Rebecca Corbett, from the time I was a city reporter right through to the years I worked… — David Simon Cities Copy Share Image
Sex work is a completely unregulated industry and to make the affront even worse, the product and the labourers are the same… — David Simon Capitalism Copy Share Image
Our future can't be separated from the fact that we are all going to be increasingly compacted into urban areas, though we're… — David Simon Copy Share Image
“It is not a look of horror, consternation, or even distress. More often than not, the last visage of a murdered man… — David Simon Murder Copy Share Image
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… — David Simon Baltimore Copy Share Image
What we've learned from the whole election cycle of 2016 President elections is men and women, men particularly, are pretty comfortable talking… — David Simon Copy Share Image
There are two Americas - separate, unequal, and no longer even acknowledging each other except on the barest cultural terms. In the… — David Simon Copy Share Image
Not only did this new pornography industry change the way men look at women and how we relate to sex, how we… — David Simon Culture Copy Share Image
There came this point where I sat down with all my notebooks and I had to start to write, when I thought:… — David Simon Copy Share Image
For a detective or street police, the only real satisfaction is the work itself; when a cop spends more and more time… — David Simon Copy Share Image
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