John Simon Quotes (18 Quotes)


    It was apparent he wasn't going to be a top-notch dog there. So we sent him to Kansas, freshened him up and cleared out his head.

    This case is just as racist as the fictional, but unfortunately all too typical case, in 'To Kill a Mockingbird'.

    Michael Taylor is not being executed for homicide. Michael Taylor is being executed for raping a white female.

    At Wheeling, he wouldn't run the sharp turns too well (at 550). So out of necessity, I put him on the backside (660). Derby Lane is a different track he's taken to it well.

    If we do the right things from a policy perspective, the results will speak for themselves.


    We've had no problems in garnering their interest. They, quite frankly, have some choices though as they look at the market.

    Red-haired, fair skinned people have a higher instance of skin cancer than black-haired individuals. And the melanin pigment in the skin of red haired people differs chemically from the melanin in the skin of those with black hair. So researchers have tried to compare the red with the black pigments, but have not succeeded in comparing the isolated human pigments until now.

    There's a danger of that. I'd rather deal with that than not do well. Last year, we were done after pool play and went home. I'd rather have the problem of having big heads or peaking too early.

    Uniforms will be changing just slightly, but it'll be basically the same transition as though the TSA were working at the checkpoint at this point, and you won't notice anything.

    We like to be the largest outside investor, and the first outside investor.

    I did not ask Mollie to testify. I never asked Drayton to testify before the hearing.

    The public does need us to be here in order to be able to feel safe being able to travel. That's what our job is, to make sure that we're prohibiting people from coming through that would be carrying things that they don't want on the plane.

    The research has been a slow process because the pigments are black, and black's hard to study. If you get rid of the color in a pigment, you've destroyed the molecule.

    Activating oxygen can produce compounds called radicals that put oxidative stress on cells. Such stress could ultimately lead to cancer and other diseases.

    We can draw hypotheses but no definitive conclusions as to why red heads have a greater epidemiological risk than dark-haired groups.

    Like springs, adaptations can only go downhill.

    Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant.

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


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