William Lewis Safir (William Safire) Quotes
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When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.
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It feels as if I never get my just due.
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I feel I am a little bit older. Reckon I will start growing a beard next week.
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I started getting these attacks in 2009, just as my music career was taking off. I'd be doing photo-shoots and started to feel like I was having heart attacks. Increasingly I found it difficult to step outside my flat. Things started to get better after I saw a therapist, who told me I needed to make peace with my panic attacks.
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I feel like sometimes I'm so positive and sometimes I think the worst of everything or I think the worst is going to happen. It's how I deal with stuff day-to-day, it's just how I get by really, and it's probably not the best way to be.
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To know that everything we say and do to this new little human being may have a profound effect on him or her is a daunting obligation.
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I can feel your body pressed against my body. When you start to poundin', love to feel you throbbin'.
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I don't weigh myself - it's all about how I feel in my clothes.
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Sometimes, especially in the last six months, I still feel like going to the window and singing out all my troubles.
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I feel things deeply.
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When I see bacon, I see a pig, I see a little friend, and that's why I can't eat it. Simple as that.
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I feel that if I said anything about John, I would have to sit here for five days and say it all. Or I don't want to say anything.
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The animated bug has bitten pop culture. It makes me feel happy and free. When you don't act seriously, you can make up your own rules.
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Our history is a passion for me. I feel that we leave out so much information and huge gaps in the American story and it makes it hard for people to really understand that we are all intricately related as Americans. So I am attracted to historically based projects because we entertain and learn something at the same time. I just love that combination.
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I feel like my peers now are artists like Madonna and the Stones, Michael Jackson and Prince. These are people who were able to take their careers beyond the normal here-today-gone-tomorrow life span.
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My head was spinning, I had never seen blood. Four years old, this don't feel like love.
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And only weaklings...who lack courage and the power to feel they're right when the whole world says they're wrong, ever lose.
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Antonin Artaud wrote on one of his drawings, "Never real and always true," and that is how depression feels. You know that it is not real, that you are someone else, and yet you know that it is absolutely true.
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The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.
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With 'Moreau,' it's been particularly confusing because I started out being the writer of the screenplay and then trying to be the director, then being moved from being the director and having to become the dog extra, it makes some kind of sense to suddenly become a character in the story.
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Faith is our form of labor. This work is required to get us back into spiritual rest.
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New is a word for fools in towns who think Style upon style in dress and thought at last Must get somewhere.
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This was what was wrong with me. All this time I had been trying to figure out the secrets of the universe, the secrets of my own body, of my own heart. All of the answers had always been so close and yet I had always fought them without even knowing it. From the minute I’d met Dante, I had fallen in love with him. I just didn’t let myself know it, think it, feel it. My father was right. And it was true what my mother said. We all fight our own private wars.
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