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Scott Simon

Scott Simon Biography

Journalist

Scott Simon is an American journalist known for his work with National Public Radio (NPR). He has been the host of 'Weekend Edition Saturday' since 1981, and has also hosted several other NPR programs. Simon is beloved by listeners for his insightful news analysis and warm hosting style.

Scott Simon is an American journalist known for his work with National Public Radio (NPR). He has been the host of 'Weekend Edition Saturday' since 1981, and has also hosted several other NPR programs. Simon is beloved by listeners for his insightful news analysis and warm hosting style.

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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?’”

Knows Ends Might Mother Shirts Adulthood T Shirt

Book:Unforgettable: A Son, a Mother, and the Lessons of a Lifetime

Source: Unforgettable: A Son, a Mother, and the Lessons of a Lifetime

“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.”

Want Wells Wife Computer Passionate My Wife Widows

Author:Scott Simon

“Murder is easy. Comedy is hard.”

Hard Easy Comedy Murder

Author:Scott Simon

“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.”

Heart Whole Song Guts

Author:Scott Simon

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

People Mind Heart Sometimes Helping Might Reading Heart And Mind

Author:Scott Simon

“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?”

World Mean Including Continents Pauses Refugee

Author:Scott Simon

“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.”

World Expression Around The World Solidarity Slogans Charlie Satirist Free Expression

Author:Scott Simon

“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.”

Years Kind Kids Appreciation Bothered Charlie Obscenity Sacrilege Charlie Hebdo

Author:Scott Simon

“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.”

Art Made Stills Form Rich Tradition Magazines Graduates Resilient Satirical Art History Pedants Sacrilegious

Author:Scott Simon

“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.”

Way Kind Different Shows Might Satire Different Kinds Charlie Onions Politically Correct Daily Show Charlie Hebdo

Author:Scott Simon

“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.”

Ifs Kind Left Extremes Pens Charlie Anarchist Charlie Hebdo

Author:Scott Simon

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

Clown Charlie Anarchist Charlie Hebdo

Author:Scott Simon

“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.”

People Years Kind Knowing Week Understood Tradition Release Satire Charlie Piety Charlie Hebdo

Author:Scott Simon

“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?”

Needs Looks Said Character Earth Certain Turns Winning Heaven Prayer Powerful Risk Losing Court Lawyer Ridiculous Trials Faithful Followers Legal System

Author:Scott Simon

“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.”

Way Trying Charlie Charlie Hebdo

Author:Scott Simon

“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.”

Country America Sports Particular Gun Shooting Rifles

Author:Scott Simon

“Bernie Sanders lost the Democratic presidential nomination to Hillary Clinton, but he won more than 12 million votes in the primaries and was respectfully and elaborately saluted by Hillary Clinton, whom he has endorsed.”

Lost Millions Vote Democratic Clinton Primaries Presidential Nominations

Author:Scott Simon

“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.”

People Winning President Race Millions Clinton Campaigns Primaries

Author:Scott Simon

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

Courses Clinton Senators Supporter Legion

Author:Scott Simon

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

Leader Revolutionary Dissent Ruthless Charismatic Castro

Author:Scott Simon

“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.”

Years Mind Hard Space Imagine Conversation Everyday Cuban Castro

Author:Scott Simon

“Fidel Castro rhetorically championed the poor. He also held the Cuban economy in a kind of arrested state. He called for racial equality but often cracked down - but did crack down on the press and dissidents and Cuban gays.”

Kind States Poor Economy Gay Presses Cracks Arrested Cracked Cuban Castro Dissidents Racial Equality

Author:Scott Simon

“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.”

People Men Reason Intellectual Intelligent Aging Intelligence Come Up Reminders Inhumanity Inhumanity To Man

Author:Scott Simon

“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.”

Long Care Night Parent Walks Worry Minutes Building Couple Theater Dinner Milk Vacation Diapers

Book:Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other: In Praise of Adoption

Source: Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other: In Praise of Adoption

“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.”

Hard Dream Process Expensive Adoption Exhausting Whim

Book:Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other: In Praise of Adoption

Source: Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other: In Praise of Adoption

“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.”

Way Mind Heart Matter Race Blood Beats Warm Score Nationality Lineage Small Minds

Book:Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other: In Praise of Adoption

Source: Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other: In Praise of Adoption

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

Want Doe Process Painful Scream Adoption Adopted Exhausting Childbirth Adopting Adopted Children

Book:Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other: In Praise of Adoption

Source: Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other: In Praise of Adoption

“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.”

Parent Pay Impossible Cost Prove Worthy Sheer Grind Indignity

Author:Scott Simon

“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.”

Feels Different Shows Waiting Horse Obstacles Worthy Despite Adoption Elephants Rivals Paperwork Gestation Horse Show

Book:Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other: In Praise of Adoption

Source: Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other: In Praise of Adoption

“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?”

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

Children Imagine Balls Children Love

Author:Scott Simon

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

Littles Forget Little Things Things In Life Little Things In Life Flossing

Book:Unforgettable: A Son, a Mother, and the Lessons of a Lifetime

Source: Unforgettable: A Son, a Mother, and the Lessons of a Lifetime

“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”

Thinking Reason Running Economic Gold Financial Gas Alchemy Straws Great Depression

Author:Scott Simon

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

Believe Written Bed Speech Believe In Me Ahead Of Time Death Bed

Book:Unforgettable: A Son, a Mother, and the Lessons of a Lifetime

Source: Unforgettable: A Son, a Mother, and the Lessons of a Lifetime

“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.”

People Want Stories Universal Distance Stranger Journalism Loved Ones Strangers And Friends

Author:Scott Simon

About the Author

Born: March 16, 1952
Known for: Journalist
Quotes: 35

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Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other: In Praise of AdoptionRelated source material

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