David Simon Quotes

When I found out that I had won the MacArthur Fellowship, I had been a professor at Carnegie Mellon for a week. I probably shouldn't be saying this on TV, but I stopped worrying about tenure.

As long as I'm taking care of my family and breaking records and continuing to excel and continuing to find new endorsements - everything's working.

So now, cut to ten years later, and I'm making this amazing contract with Pantene. It's incredible.

I've been able to help my family financially since making my first hit record. I bought my parents a house. My husband and I have a property in Portugal and one in Mumbles, Wales, and my family are always coming out to visit us. It has been fantastic to have such a successful career and to have been able to help everyone.

I've done well for myself.

I also won one from the emperor of Japan, with a prize for the arts. That's important.

Everyone wants to be paid well - I know that I certainly do. But there are lots of other satisfactions that we get from our work. To feel needed. To feel accomplishment. To believe that our work matters. Being a lawyer gives you a rare chance to experience that kind of success.

The first money I ever had was when I received an award from the American Association of University Women.

When I first met my husband, he had a very good job - company car, pension plan, grudging respect from his staff - the lot. I, on the other hand, was badly paid and devoid of ambition. Then I had a couple of books published and confounded all expectations by starting to earn more than he did.

I'm fighting to make childcare more affordable for working parents so they can continue working and advancing their careers, closing wage gaps that for too long have held women back from the fair economic opportunities they need.

I work for everything I've got. I started off as a very poor kid. I want to get paid.

What I hope is I'll eventually be seen as an actual individual, not as some abstraction - an art dealer running a museum.

I watched my parents go from having very basic jobs to educating themselves, to buying a house. They set a really good bar for what they wanted their kids to achieve.

The first thing I did when my career started moving was to buy a small house.

I don't have to justify myself. I work a lot and I earn a lot.

All I was looking for is to be successful. I had the opportunity with Australia, with what it provided for me economically.

There's nothing wrong with being respected by your peers. There's nothing wrong with trying to do your best. There's nothing wrong with success. There's not even anything wrong with trying to get a raise. There's nothing wrong with that.

I'm very proud of my business career.

I've made these films, and I'm really proud, but my lifestyle hasn't changed.

I was the only one to go to university, and the last thing my dad wanted was for me to be an artist. But later on, when I bought him a house in the south of Spain, he thought it was all right then.

To get the Red Bull junior drive was like a massive pressure off... I didn't have to go around asking Mum and Dad to sell their house or ask friends for funding. The instant feeling was, 'Oh wow, amazing.'

Dana White ain't going to take care of you the second after you can't make him a whole bunch of money.

My dad was able to give me everything through football.

Growing up, it was just me and my mom. I watched her struggle for 17 years, and when I was 19, I got a chance to pay off all of her debt after two paychecks. That's a crazy feeling.

It wasn't nice having to work full-time. It's a rise that I wouldn't have predicted, but it's a good example for younger players of what can be achieved.