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Top 25 Scott Simon Quotes (2025 Update)

Scott Simon Quote: “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.”

1. “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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Scott Simon Quote: “ICU seems to be staffed by good, smart young docs who think they know everything, and wise RN’s who really do.”

2. “ICU seems to be staffed by good, smart young docs who think they know everything, and wise RN’s who really do.”

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Scott Simon Quote: “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.”

3. “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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Scott Simon Quote: “There are times when the adoption process is exhausting and painful and makes you want to scream. But, I am told, so does childbirth.”

4. “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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Scott Simon Quote: “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.”

5. “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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Scott Simon Quote: “Reading will put you into the minds and hearts of others. It might help you understand why other people do what they do sometimes.”

6. “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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Scott Simon Quote: “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.”

7. “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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Scott Simon Quote: “When they mention great little things in life, they usually forget flossing.”

8. “When they mention great little things in life, they usually forget flossing.”

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Scott Simon Quote: “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?”

9. “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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Scott Simon Quote: “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.”

10. “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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Scott Simon Quote: “Murder is easy. Comedy is hard.”

11. “Murder is easy. Comedy is hard.”

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Scott Simon Quote: “Believe me, those great death bed speeches are written ahead of time.”

12. “Believe me, those great death bed speeches are written ahead of time.”

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Scott Simon Quote: “A classy guy had manners. He said please and thank you, Mr. and Miss, and held open doors. Classy guys picked up checks. They left good tips. They dressed with respect. They kept their word. They sent flowers. They apologized personally. They tried to be kind and courteous, even if they sometimes had to be firm, and their best jokes were about themselves. My mother’s friends.”

13. “A classy guy had manners. He said please and thank you, Mr. and Miss, and held open doors. Classy guys picked up checks. They left good tips. They dressed with respect. They kept their word. They sent flowers. They apologized personally. They tried to be kind and courteous, even if they sometimes had to be firm, and their best jokes were about themselves. My mother’s friends.”

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Scott Simon Quote: “Imagine the talented love-child of Andr Previn and Lucille Ball.”

14. “Imagine the talented love-child of Andr Previn and Lucille Ball.”

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Scott Simon Quote: “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.”

15. “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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Scott Simon Quote: “Charlie Hebdo were the licensed anarchist clowns of the society.”

16. “Charlie Hebdo were the licensed anarchist clowns of the society.”

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Scott Simon Quote: “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?’”

17. “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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Scott Simon Quote: “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.”

18. “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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Scott Simon Quote: “I became a pedant of the form. I did my graduate work in art history and particularly in the history of French satirical cartooning. And that made me aware of what a rich and resilient tradition this seemingly scabrous sacrilegious magazine still represented in French life.”

19. “I became a pedant of the form. I did my graduate work in art history and particularly in the history of French satirical cartooning. And that made me aware of what a rich and resilient tradition this seemingly scabrous sacrilegious magazine still represented in French life.”

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Scott Simon Quote: “AR-15s, in particular, are often called America’s gun. They’re some of the most popular rifles in the country, especially when it comes to sports shooting.”

20. “AR-15s, in particular, are often called America’s gun. They’re some of the most popular rifles in the country, especially when it comes to sports shooting.”

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Scott Simon Quote: “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.”

21. “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

Scott Simon Quote: “Children connect you to eternity,” she wrote us. “They’re like notes to be opened after we die.”

22. “Children connect you to eternity,” she wrote us. “They’re like notes to be opened after we die.”

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Scott Simon Quote: “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.”

23. “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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Scott Simon Quote: “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.”

24. “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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Scott Simon Quote: “Charlie Hebdo mocked everyone. They mocked the left. They mocked the right. They mocked, above all, the extreme right, the extreme right of Le Pen’s. If anything could identify their politics, they were kinds of anarchists.”

25. “Charlie Hebdo mocked everyone. They mocked the left. They mocked the right. They mocked, above all, the extreme right, the extreme right of Le Pen’s. If anything could identify their politics, they were kinds of anarchists.”

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Scott Simon Quote: “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.”

26. “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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