Simpson Quotes - page 2

I've been on my own since I was 13. I grew up having to use my wits. My parents were not wealthy. We weren't poor, but we had a lot of meals with noodles. I was born during the Depression. My parents died pretty much penniless. Every dollar I've ever made I earned myself. I don't believe in luck. Louis Pasteur said, "Chance favors the prepared mind." The smarter you are, the more you know, the better. I was the only Jew in town and I was my generation's Bart Simpson. I knew the world could be mine. (Harlan Ellison)
The terrible state of public education has paid huge dividends in ignorance. Huge. We now have a country that can be told blatant lies - easily checkable, blatant lies - and I'm not talking about the covert workings of the CIA. When we have a terrorist attack, on September 11, 2001 with 19 men - 15 of them are Saudis - and five minutes later the whole country thinks they're from Iraq - how can you have faith in the public? This is an easily checkable fact. The whole country is like the O.J. Simpson jurors. View quote
Fran Lebowitz
I think the people in the field were magnificent. And they got the stories, and I put troops at risk to get their stories out every night. But the copy people and the editing people back home, they're the ones who put Tanya Harding on and O. J. Simpson, not the guys in the field. View quote
Roméo Dallaire
Lionel: Mrs. Simpson, don't you worry. I watched Matlock in a bar last night; the sound wasn't on, but I think I got the gist of it. View quote
Phil Hartman
I disagreed with the grand jury on [Tawana] Brawley. I believed there was enough evidence to go to trial. The grand jury said there wasn't. OK, fine. Do I have a right to disagree with the grand jury? Many Americans believe O.J. Simpson was guilty. A jury said he wasn't. So I have as much right to question a jury as they do. Does it make somebody a racist? No! They just disagreed with the jury. So did I. View quote
Al Sharpton
More proof that trusting the Feds to protect our information is like hiring Homer Simpson to guard the donuts. View quote
Robert X. Cringely
Simpson's paradox (Simpson 1951; Blyth 1972), first encountered by Pearson in 1899 (Aldrich 1995), refers to the phenomenon whereby an event C increases the probability of E in a given population p and, at the same time, decreases the probability of E in every subpopulation of p. View quote
Judea Pearl
Back in high school, I wrote a novel about a character named Bart Simpson. I thought it was a very unusual name for a kid at the time. I had this idea of an angry father yelling 'Bart,' and Bart sounds kind of like bark - like a barking dog. View quote
Matt Groening
My standard comment is, If you don't want your kids to be like Bart Simpson, don't act like Homer Simpson. View quote
Matt Groening
It is true that from a behavioral economics perspective we are fallible, easily confused, not that smart, and often irrational. We are more like Homer Simpson than Superman. So from this perspective it is rather depressing. But at the same time there is also a silver lining. There are free lunches! View quote
Dan Ariely
Once we know that people are human and have some Homer Simpson in them, then there's a lot that can be done to manipulate them. (Cass Sunstein)
I just totally do not believe in this sort of Bart Simpson character who infects so much of our literature and film and TV stuff nowadays, these know-it-all kids who seem to understand the hypocrisy of the adult world so thoroughly and can talk about it with such articulateness. That's bunk. View quote
David Small
Look at Jessica Simpson. She's famous for being dumb. I guess it started with Marylyn Monroe, and she actually wasn't that dumb, but that's how she was perceived - and that's what got popular. View quote
Danica McKellar
I love to shop at Macy's. It has a huge Guess section and lots of Jessica Simpson stuff. View quote
Jackie Evancho
The O.J. Simpson case, they had no understanding of that DNA evidence, and didn't want to. View quote
Joseph Wambaugh
Today, lawyers are attacking more; they're attacking everything. A good example is the O.J. Simpson case. View quote
Joseph Wambaugh
When I was 6, I saw a commercial that Jessica Simpson was in, and that was the first time I felt my little heart flutter. View quote
Lee Ryan
After the Simpson trial, after all the bad things Cochran was claiming, I became the most investigated officer in the history of the LAPD. View quote
Mark Fuhrman
When I was first starting out in the music industry, I was always coupled in the same sentence with Jessica Simpson, Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera - and I was probably the worst of them. I think a lot of people back then thought, 'Mandy Moore... she'll probably go back to where she came from in a year.' View quote
Mandy Moore
It's grossly unfair to judge Walter Payton solely on the yards he gains. He is a complete football player, better than Jim Brown, better than O.J. Simpson. View quote
Jim Finks
There's no question that O.J. Simpson had been a substitute white man in America. He had gained honorary white status. He was not viewed by many white Americans as black. He was not seen as the African American athlete who was rebellious: Jim Brown, Muhammad Ali, Hank Aaron... He was accepted in golf clubs that were very tony. (Michael Eric Dyson)
What I'd like is to turn out like Jessica Simpson, with her whole brand. View quote
Nicole Polizzi
Ten years from now, I would like to see myself successful as a brand, like Jessica Simpson, with babies running around and a beautiful husband and my own reality show. View quote
Nicole Polizzi
I've known Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles and they're two of the most independent people I've ever known in my life, and the thought we could somehow bend their views I find really beyond my capacity to believe. View quote
Peter George Peterson
When I was 6, I saw a commercial that Jessica Simpson was in, and that was the first time I felt my little heart flutter. View quote
Ryan Lee