William Lewis Safir (William Safire) Quotes
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To face deflation, you have to have people accepting it and not reacting to it.
Carlos Ghosn -
Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
Abraham Lincoln -
Being flown to the U.S. to meet Sofia Coppola is really exciting. I was freaking out. I'm a little nervous, as I don't want to muck it up I want to do my best.
Olivia DeJonge -
I think that in Mexico, we must change some practices that were built during the 72 years of predominance in Mexico. Former presidents would just hide away, run away or disappear. And I think it's key in a democracy that presidents face people, see eye to eye to citizens and work to keep on contributing to the - to Mexico.
Vicente Fox -
Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
Feisal Abdul Rauf -
Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
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Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.
Kailash Satyarthi -
There is more to life than show business.
Garry Marshall -
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
H. L. Mencken -
One shouldn't know the future.
Zubin Mehta -
When I was about 13, I met the coolest, chicest young woman I had ever seen. She was a neighbor of mine who became a fashion designer and had a small design studio. She taught me so many things about style and fashion. I had always loved making things, so when she told me about her career in fashion, I knew I had found my path.
Narciso Rodriguez -
The freedom that money gives you makes you... well, I wouldn't say happy, but I'd say it gives you diversity.
Paloma Faith
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The awkward thing for me is when the realization happens that I actually might like this girl. Then I become awkward.
Zac Efron -
I don't want to know movie directors. I don't want to be close to them. I don't want to interfere with their work. I don't want them to interfere with mine.
Patricia Highsmith -
The regret of my life is that I have not said 'I love you' often enough.
Yoko Ono -
In January '77 I went out to LA and have been here 26 years.
Ted Shackelford -
Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.
Tatiana Maslany -
When I was at school, I used to end every school day with fountain pen ink all over my hands and face and down my shirt.
Edgar Wright
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People have really long attention spans, and they love complicated plots. TV series are giving the audience what they want.
Kevin Spacey -
Daoist thought is the root of science and technology in China.
Joseph Needham -
Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it. So if, from perhaps some unhealthy desire for sympathetic support, you describe your life in negative terms you will find that this will reinforce your mind's negative emotions and make you unhappy and even more susceptible to feeling unhappy in the future. By simply doing the reverse and focusing on why you are lucky and grateful things are not worse, you will strengthen and increase your mind's positive emotions and make yourself happy and even more likely to feel happy in the future.
Benjamin Lee Whorf -
It was so hard to watch myself back because whatever movie I do, I never look at the monitor. I hate looking at the monitor.
Odeya Rush -
English is a stretch language; one size fits all.
William Lewis Safir