William Lewis Safir (William Safire) Quotes
The first ladyship is the only federal office in which the holder can neither be fired nor impeached.
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Mr. Trump, Americans can't afford, and don't want, to worry about the latest lawsuit filed against their president. And you're not immune from these suits once you enter the Oval Office. Anything you've done before taking office is fair game.
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In my flat in Chicago, I've got this big room with an office in the corner and a balcony so I can watch people go by.
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Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it.
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This old notion that work is drudgery is nonsense. Most days, even back when Xerox was under siege, I could not wait to get to the office.
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The '90s was a decade of mundane market-consumer nothingness where there was nothing coming up from the streets; you just had someone in an office deciding what was cool.
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This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.
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It's more than a little ironic that the mantra that swept Bill Clinton into office is exactly what prevented Hillary from winning it. Somehow, the Manhattan billionaire became the voice of the disaffected blue-collar middle class in states like Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Michigan.
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I got off the abutment and walked towards my office.
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Running for office is similar to being a trial lawyer in a very long trial. It requires adrenaline and stamina; it requires being in shape mentally and emotionally. It's a marathon.
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Being First Lady is playing supporting act. I am not seeking notoriety and I am not seeking to grab the limelight.
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The first lady must be a leader. She must not be a follower.
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My obsession with accumulation, which at times has taken on the whisper of a psychic illness - as anyone who has experienced the ode to the Collyer brothers that is my 'Vogue' office will concur - began in infancy.
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I can't focus when there's too many things around. Whenever I used to go to the office, I used to always say, 'Tidy up.'
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I opened an office in Terre Haute, established eight of them, and became one of the eight county agents.
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And in the meantime, Michelle has had a chance to greet the incoming First Lady. And we had an excellent conversation with her as well. And we want to make sure that they feel welcome as they prepare to make this transition.
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It's a lot of fun to just say to people, proudly, 'I get to play the First Lady.' It's just fun to say.
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We had a teacher, named Mr. Brown, and he was writing something on the board once - he was writing something on the board, and he farted. And you would have thought kids had seen the face of God. Kids weren't even laughing; they were just sitting there screaming, just screaming. Kids had to get carted out; kids were screaming. Kids had to get carted out, and they were going to the nurses' office. Kids are crying in the hallway. 'Oh, this is our 9/11.' And it was. It was their 9/11 'cause they never thought anything like that could ever happen.
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I have a portrait of Saint Thomas More in my office.
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It's the best deal of, of this whole thing is it turns out I've got this nice home office. And at the end of the day, yeah, I can come home, even if I've got more work to do, I can have dinner with them. I can help them with their homework. I can tuck them in. If I've gotta go back to the office, I can.
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How can you have an educated workforce, how do you equal the economic disparities in this country, if you can't make college more affordable for those who are struggling to make it?
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The greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.
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The photographic image has great possibilities. The magical photograph attempts to go beyond the immediate context of the recorded experience into the realm of the indefinable. The photographer as magician is acutely aware of the multiplicity of associations submerged in the appearance of the objective world.
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The first ladyship is the only federal office in which the holder can neither be fired nor impeached.
