"In journalism, when we want to get a……" — Scott Simon
"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. There is one universal experience, that's death. That is something we are all going to experience at some distance in the lives of loved ones, strangers and friends, people around us and certainly our own,"
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15 Quotes by Scott Simon
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When they mention great little things in life, they usually forget flossing.
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Believe me, those great death bed speeches are written ahead of time.
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