"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."

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David Simon

#Long Quotes #Gone Quotes #Levels Quotes

“Hallucinations are bad enough. But after awhile you learn to cope with things like seeing your dead grandmother crawling up your leg with a knife in her teeth. Most acid fanciers can handle this sort of thing. But nobody can handle that other trip-the possibility that any freak with $1.98 can walk into the Circus-Circus and suddenly appear in the sky over downtown Las Vegas twelve times the size of God, howling anything that comes into his head. No, this is not a good town for psychedelic drugs.”
“People tend to compartmentalize themselves into IT people, and movie star people, and scientists, but when we share our perspectives about nature, we find a common denominator.”
“Of all the intellectual hurdles which the human mind has confronted and has overcome in the last fifteen hundred years the one which seems to me to have been the most amazing in character and the most stupendous in the scope of its consequences is the one relating to the problem of motion.”

Source : Herbert Butterfield (1997). “The Origins of Modern Science”, p.15, Simon and Schuster
“I'm psychotically involved in every tiny little aspect. That's just the way I've been about everything my whole life.”
“Even those who identify themselves as libertarians follow an overtly anti-rationalist philosophy, as even a brief acquaintance with the work of Friedrich Hayek should make clear. The argument against reason in this literature is straightforward: it is impossible for any individual to acquire enough reliable information to make a rational decision, any actions founded on rational thought will therefore be delusional, any attempts at reason should therefore regarded as dangerous, and all action should instead be guided by tradition.”
“A lot of people remember me from Star Trek. They've all forgotten all the other things I've done. I was so identified with the role.”
“I was never the ingenue, so hopefully that'll make it easier to age and still work. I know a lot of actors who are really dissatisfied with where they're at even though some of them are huge stars and I feel like, 'Oh, my God, you're at the top.' Something interesting will come. It always does. I have faith.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Let your dream devour your life, not your life devour your dream.”

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