David Simon Quotes

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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…
• 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…
• 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…
• It is your birthright to have a life of meaning and purpose. Whether or not the people in your life have consistently celebrated your incarnation,…
• Awakening into love is a lifelong path.
• 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…
• Healing from our past is an essential aspect of expanding our sense of self and awakening our capacity to love. This shift often manifests as…
• Boiled down to its core, the truth is always a simple, solid thing
• You shoot another guy—well, okay, this is Baltimore. You shoot three guys, it’s time to admit you have a problem.
• A little anger is a good thing if it isn't on your own behalf, if it's for others deserving of your anger, your empathy.
• Albert Camus, a great humanist and existentialist voice, pointed out that to commit to a just cause with no hope of success is absurd. But…
• It seems that in Baltimore, one of the most violent cities in America, jurors are far more reluctant to convict criminal defendants than in the…
• It's been said that no man is a hero to a newspaperman, and I spent too many years as an ink-stained wretch.
• On a practical level I'm a TV producer and storyteller who's gone about as long as you can go without achieving a mass audience.
• 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…
• The why is what makes journalism an adult game. The why is what makes policy coherent and useful. The why is what transforms bureaucrats and…
• There are a couple of ideas for features that I would love to do. They happen to be comedies.
• What drugs have not destroyed, the war on them has
• You have the capacity to change the plot line of your life, even if you've been acting from the same script since before you can…
• Life is too short to carry the burden of a heavy heart. It does not serve you or anyone else. Free yourself through the power…

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