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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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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The $41 million went into the land before the ivory bill showed up.
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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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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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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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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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Playing against good competition, we had to step our game up a notch. I think that down the road it is really going to help us out.
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These three games against Eastern Michigan are just huge games for us. In the MAC, we have to keep on winning series and keep on playing hard.
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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 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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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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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.