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Sam Simon Quotes

There are certain times you realize you've got too much money. One was when I started getting bills from the Koi hotel. When I was remodeling the Koi pond, the Koi had to go to the Koi hotel. They ended up staying there for 13 months and I never asked what the bill was.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: american
Birth: June 6, 1955 - March 8, 2015

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Money Hotel You Too Much Go Never

The prospect that I could actually be a journalist triggered a 'Who do you think you are?' reaction in me. It was only in going to law school and being unhappy there that I realized that I really, really had to try it.

School Me Law Think Unhappy You

We are supposed to believe that every dollar given to a Clinton is a dollar that improves the world. But is it? Clintonworld is a galaxy where personal enrichment and political advancement blend seamlessly, and where a cast of jarringly familiar characters pad their pockets every which way to Sunday.

World Believe Political Sunday Way

My favorite anything is always relative to the context of present time, place and mood. When I finish a book and want to immediately find another by the same author and no other, that author is elevated to my favorite.

Time Book Present Find Place Mood

It may be the optimist in me, but I think America has a uniquely powerful and capacious glue internally. The American identity has always been ethnically and religiously neutral, so within one generation you have Italian-Americans, Irish-Americans, Chinese-Americans, Jamaican-Americans - they feel American. It's a huge success story.

Success Identity Me Think Generation

I like to bring my kids to the voting booth to show them how it works. I'll let them draw their own conclusions as to how worthwhile it is.

Stephen J. Dubner

Voting Conclusions Own Bring Kids

The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.

Opportunity Hands Enemy Defeat Own

I learned how important timing is; having a really good idea five years ahead of its time is practically worthless.

Good Time Important Timing Ahead

You want success, and then when you do get it, you don't want it because of the attention.

Success Attention You Want Get Then

TV is a fickle business. I'm only good for the length of my contract.

Good Business Contract Fickle Only

I know reform is never easy. But I know reform is right.

Easy Know Never Right Reform

In a faraway land called 'pre-2000,' what Earthlings now call blogging was called 'keeping a diary.' It's hard work to do well. I tried doing it in the early 1990s but had to stop because I no longer had a life - instead I had this thing that generated anecdotes to go into my diary. The diary took over and I had to stop.

Douglas Coupland

Life Work Hard Work Doing Early Go

Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation.

Constantin Stanislavski

Talent Attention Nothing Mental

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