Scott Simon Quotes

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• Srebrenica's not simply another reminder of man's inhumanity to man, but how intelligent people can always come up with intelligent reasons to do nothing.
• So: this is where we are going to become parents. You walk into the building as a couple, and leave a few minutes later as…
• Adoption is rewarding. But the process, as we have already detailed in some particulars, can be expensive, exhausting, and hard to sustain on a dream,…
• Race, blood, lineage, and nationality don't matter; they're just the way that small minds keep score. All that matters about blood is that it's warm…
• There are times when the adoption process is exhausting and painful and makes you want to scream. But, I am told, so does childbirth.
• It's not the cost (although that pinches), or the time (though that grinds). After a while, it's the sheer galling indignity of being asked to…
• Despite the reams of paperwork, obstacles worthy of a horse show, and a wait that can rival an elephant's gestation, adoption feels no different on…
• Fifteen-year-old girls produce children with sixteen-year-old boys in the backseat of cars and in the stairwells of apartment buildings. Why can't two loving adults who…
• Imagine the talented love-child of Andr Previn and Lucille Ball.
• When they mention great little things in life, they usually forget flossing.
• One of the reasons we think this market will start to run out of gas at some point is that you've essentially created as much…
• Believe me, those great death bed speeches are written ahead of time.
• In journalism, when we want to get a story over the jumps, we refer to it as a universal experience, but it almost never is.…
• I know end might be near as this is only day of my adulthood I’ve seen my mother and she hasn’t asked, ‘Why that shirt?’
• I've always been passionate about what I do and want to do it well, ... My wife says she's a widow to the computer.

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