Scott Simon Quotes

• 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 the inside.

  Scott Simon

  Horse, Elephants, Waiting

  Scott Simon (2010). “Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other: In Praise of Adoption”, p.76, Random House

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• 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 and that it beats through a loving heart.

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  Heart, Race, Blood

  Scott Simon (2010). “Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other: In Praise of Adoption”, p.22, Random House

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• 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 a family. You walk in recollecting long romantic dinners, nights at the theater, and care-free vacations. You leave worrying about where to get diapers, milk, and Cheerios.

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  Couple, Vacation, Night

  Scott Simon (2010). “Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other: In Praise of Adoption”, p.9, Random House

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• Senator Sanders, of course, has campaigned for Hillary Clinton. But what about his legions of supporters?

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  Clinton, Legion, Courses

  "How Will Bernie Sanders Supporters Vote?". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. September 24, 2016.

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• Reading will put you into the minds and hearts of others. It might help you understand why other people do what they do sometimes.

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  Reading, Heart, People

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• There are times when the adoption process is exhausting and painful and makes you want to scream. But, I am told, so does childbirth.

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  Adoption, Doe, Want

  Scott Simon (2010). “Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other: In Praise of Adoption”, p.7, Random House

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• I take Charb's point, but at some point has Charlie Hebdo been trying to have it both ways because some of what they do is not funny.

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  Charlie Hebdo, Trying, Way

  "Charlie Hebdo, The Licensed Anarchist Clowns Of French Society". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. January 2, 2016.

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• In the wake of the deaths of the satirists, Je suis Charlie, I am Charlie, became a slogan of solidarity for free expression around the world.

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  Expression, World, Solidarity

  "Charlie Hebdo, The Licensed Anarchist Clowns Of French Society". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. January 2, 2016.

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• Almost every continent in the world, including our own, has refugees. But how often when we hear the word do we pause to remind ourselves what being a refugee means?

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  Mean, World, Refugee

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• 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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  Distance, Strangers And Friends, People

  "Scott Simon’s Tweets About Dying Mother Spur Conversation On Public Grief, Death On Social Media" by Jaweed Kaleem, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 9, 2013.

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• 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 gold from straw as you can from this financial alchemy

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  Running, Thinking, Gold

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• Fidel Castro takes up so much space in the Cuban mind. It's hard for us to imagine as Americans - isn't it? - how much of everyday conversation he's dominated for 50 years.

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  Years, Space, Everyday

  Fuente: www.npr.org

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• Cuando mencionan las pequeñas grandes cosas de la vida, suelen olvidarse del hilo dental.

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  Things In Life, Littles, Little Things

  Scott Simon (2015). “Unforgettable: A Son, a Mother, and the Lessons of a Lifetime”, p.215, Macmillan

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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.

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  Intelligent, Men, Inhumanity To Man

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• 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 prove, pay, and prove all over again that you're a worthy parent. Any true parent will tell you that that is impossible to prove in advance.

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  Parent, Cost, Pay

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• Fidel Castro was a charismatic revolutionary and a ruthless leader who allowed no dissent.

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  Leader, Revolutionary, Ruthless

  Fuente: www.npr.org

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• Janis Joplin didn't just sing a song, she took it over. She swallowed it whole, then sent it back through her gut and her heart.

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  Song, Heart, Guts

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• 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, much less a whim.

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  Dream, Adoption, Process

  Scott Simon (2010). “Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other: In Praise of Adoption”, p.49, Random House

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• Murder is easy. Comedy is hard.

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  Comedy, Murder, Easy

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• As the race for president tightens, Hillary Clinton's campaign hopes to win over millions of people who voted for Bernie Sanders in the primaries.

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  Ganar, Raza, Gente

  "How Will Bernie Sanders Supporters Vote?". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. September 24, 2016.

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• 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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  Wife, Widows, Passionate

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• 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?’

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  Mother, Might, T Shirt

  Scott Simon (2015). “Unforgettable: A Son, a Mother, and the Lessons of a Lifetime”, p.201, Macmillan

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• 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 have contemplated parenthood and are prepared to offer love, patience, and devotion come up with enough chromosomal matter to stick together and create a child?

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  Girl, Children, Boys

  "Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other: In Praise of Adoption". Book by Scott Simon, 2010.

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• Believe me, those great death bed speeches are written ahead of time.

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  Believe, Bed, Speech

  Scott Simon (2015). “Unforgettable: A Son, a Mother, and the Lessons of a Lifetime”, p.109, Macmillan

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• Imagine the talented love-child of Andr Previn and Lucille Ball.

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  Children, Balls, Imagine

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