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While I think storytelling is a meaningful way to spend your life... it does feel a little bit secondary or off-point.

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David Simon
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: February 9
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David Judah Simon
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For a detective or street police, the only real satisfaction is the work itself when a cop spends more and more time getting aggravated with the details, he's finished. The attitude of co-workers, the indifference of superiors, the poor quality of the equipment - all of it pales if you still love the job all of it matters if you don't.
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It seems that in Baltimore, one of the most violent cities in America, jurors are far more reluctant to convict criminal defendants than in the suburban enclaves that ring the city.
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You have the capacity to change the plotline of your life, even if you've been acting from the same script since before you can remember.
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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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Baltimore's often called the most northern Southern town. It has a distinct essence. It's definitely post-industrial, definitely Rust Belt, very working-class. I grew up outside of Washington, and I felt I was moving to a completely different place when I moved 30 miles north out of college.
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The greatest contribution we can make to the wellbeing of those in our lives is to have peace in our own hearts.
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African American music can't happen in Germany or in Italy or in Mumbai. If America disappeared off the face of the Earth today, the greatest single cultural loss would be blues, jazz, hip-hop, R&B, rock-and-roll.
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Acceptance means focusing on the present while assessing the choices available to you in this moment. If there are many possibilities, make the choice that is likely to bring the most evolutionary results. If there is only one choice, take it. If there are no obvious choices, relax and accept the fact that for now, you cannot do anything.
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Healing is the process of reestablishing the integration between body, mind, and spirit, creating opportunities for the return of the memory of wholeness.
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A little anger is a good thing if it isn't on your own behalf, if it's for others deserving of your anger, your empathy.
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When we spend time in silence, we can hear the voice of our soul whispering its sacred message and encouraging us to make choices that bring us more happiness, health, love, meaning, and peace.
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People from here will often say, I'm not from the United States, I'm from New Orleans.
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Any music can be healing if it inspires, relaxes, encourages or creates enthusiasm for life in you.
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Nobody reads anymore in America. Reading has become the least effective delivery system for narrative. That's sad because prose is the means by which you can deliver very complicated, nuanced explanations of problems and possible solutions.
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Rural America's not coming back. That idea was lost with the Industrial Revolution.
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Authenticity is an alignment between your beliefs, your desires and your choices in the world. Desires change throughout the course of a life, but agreement between ideals, aspirations and deeds is key to a life of peace, happiness and success.
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