William Lewis Safir (William Safire) Quotes
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Some of the most fun people I know are scientists.
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I am dying soon, and I am choosing to have fun today, tomorrow and every other day I have left.
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Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.
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I see the Calvin Klein girl as strong, fun, and confident.
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What's really important to me is somebody who can totally let loose and pretty much be themselves and have fun.
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It's fun to look at people that are so good at acting that aren't actors, like David Bowie creating a mystique about rock n' roll.
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I think legally we have to do 'fun' with a period. I think we agreed because apparently there was another band called 'fun.' We Google-searched, which now makes sense because we're so impossible to Google-search.
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I think I've really exhausted the magical. It was a lot of fun, but I've put it behind me for the time being.
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Turns out you have a really fun time if you go to work every day and focus on being silly and funny and happy!
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So many people try to grow up too fast, and it's not fun! You should stay a kid as long as possible!
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I love 'Love Actually.' 'Love Actually,' there's, like, nine stories in that movie. Three of them are good. But watching that movie, I get emotional, I get choked up, my wife makes fun of me. I don't know if as you get older you get sappier and sentimental.
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I want my little corner of the world where I get to make games where you're not trying to win or lose; you're not trying to get a higher score - you are having unbelievable amounts of fun as you learn about yourself and the world. That's what games can do!
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The game is meant to be fun.
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I don't think people know how much time and effort truly goes into the game and goes into simply just scoring a touchdown. So when you get that opportunity, you should be able to be free and be relaxed from all the pressure that went into scoring that touchdown and have fun.
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The smart way to build a literary career is you create an identifiable product, then reliably produce that product so people know what they are going to get. That's the smart way to build a career, but not the fun way. Maybe you can think about being less successful and happier. That's an option, too.
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But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary cut if I went to my other love, teaching; and partly because I still have stories to tell, even though it isn't all that fun doing the work anymore.
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You know, I used to be made fun of as a kid for being really articulate; it was sort of like a strange thing.
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I think I'm a fun flatmate. I'm always cheerful. I go on tour with my band so it's 12 people on one bus and I feel like I'm the one who's happy in the morning. I'm not a chaotic person, but I might slack off on doing the dishes from time to time.
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Over the years, many executives have said to me with pride: 'Boy, I worked so hard last year that I didn't take any vacation.' I always feel like responding, "You dummy. You mean to tell me you can take responsibility for an eighty-million-dollar project and you can't plan two weeks out of the year to have some fun?
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The thing I’m most afraid of is me. Of not knowing what I’m going to do. Of not knowing what I’m doing right now.
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There's this pressure to perform in your twenties - I think it comes from this whole generational foreshadowing that presumes there will be a whole other layer of things to worry about in your thirties.
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Oh! it offends me to the soul to hear a robust periwig-pated fellow, tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings.
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You can tell how uninteresting a person is by asking him whom he finds interesting.
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The most fun in breaking a rule is in knowing what rule you're breaking.
