Scott Simon
Scott Simon
Scott Simon is an American journalist and the host of Weekend Edition Saturday on NPR...
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth16 March 1952
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I am a product of technology. We now have cameras available to the consumer that were of the same caliber in observatories only 10 years ago, ... Now amateurs can have a camera aperture unheard of 10, 20 years ago. An amateur can now do what scientists were doing five years ago.
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Just pretty much staying within myself with my swing and not doing too much with it. That's usually when I'm at my best.
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The $41 million went into the land before the ivory bill showed up.
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We're not going to be a team that tries to hit home runs all the time. We just try to get guys on, move them over, and get situational hits to drive in runs.
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The Schoenberg's have created a multi-media project for children that makes learning (about the body) more fun.
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This closest visit to our planet was a lifetime event, ... I was glad to have been alive and there to watch this great event.
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It's like the bird came out of the woods to tell us, you're doing a good job. It validates 20 years of conservation work.
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Everyone understood [Charlie Hebdo], as people had understood for hundreds of years, knowing that Rabelaisian tradition of French satire, they knew how to read it. And they understood the kind of release from piety that it represented every week.
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I was a kid and it was kind of scabrous, and it wasn't the sacrilege that bothered me so much as the obscenity that challenged a 14-year-old American. But over the years, I came to have a keen appreciation of Charlie Hebdo and what it did.
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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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Exactly who is this God character who is said to be all-powerful yet needs to hire lawyers to take us to court? Isn't he miffed when someone he had always considered to be a true follower turns to the legal system rather than to prayer? Why would the faithful risk making God look ridiculous by losing a trial on Earth when he is certain to win every trial in heaven?
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Charlie Hebdo was and is not The Onion or "The Daily Show." This is a different kind of satire. Might I put it this way - less politically correct.
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Charlie Hebdo were the licensed anarchist clowns of the society.
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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.