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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 don't care about, then it doesn't really have - the stakes aren't there. But if you do that every now and then, then the story matters to people. And there are actual stakes involved, emotional stakes. ↗

— David Simon

#actual #care #emotional #every #go

There are no morals about technology at all. Technology expands our ways of thinking about things, expands our ways of doing things. If we're bad people we use technology for bad purposes and if we're good people we use it for good purposes. ↗

— Herbert Simon

#bad #bad people #doing #expands #good

Maybe we ought to have a world in which things are divided between people kind of fairly. ↗

— Herbert Simon

#divided #fairly #kind #maybe #ought

The proper study of mankind is the science of design. ↗

— Herbert Simon

#mankind #proper #proper study #science #study

When I began making my own albums, the songs became funkier. They were more about the streets. ↗

— Paul Simon

#albums #became #began #i #making

People are looking around. They are looking to do something with their time and money. The question is, what? ↗

— John Simon

#looking #money #people #question #something

If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything. ↗

— Paul Simon

#created #everything #get #humor #i

When we came into the studio I became more and more me, making the tracks and choosing the musicians, partly because a great deal of the time during Bridge, Artie wasn't there. ↗

— Paul Simon

#became #because #bridge #came #choosing

The worst thing about that kind of prejudice... is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough. ↗

— Nina Simone

#am #angry #enough #feeds #feel

I think that's the thing. I don't want to date a celebrity. I want to date a normal person. So I'm looking for a normal person. ↗

— Ashlee Simpson

#date #i #i think #looking #normal