William Lewis Safir (William Safire) Quotes
Some handsome and ambitious men believe they are above all morality, and a woman's virtue becomes a mere challenge to them.
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History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
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Going to school on a campus where the faculty overwhelmingly disagrees with you, and where the student body overwhelmingly disagrees with you, is challenging. If you go in without a firm foundation, it can undermine what you believe.
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Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!
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The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.
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I do that mostly because I believe that the fantasy business is in terrible trouble right now, for several reasons, not the least of which being the almost Democrat vs. Republican mentality of readers on the Internet.
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Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
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I love to pitch things that I believe in and products that I love to use.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.
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I want to do a make-up line for men.
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I don't believe in 'thinking' old. Although I've transitioned through many bodies - a baby, toddler, child, teen, young adult, mid-life and older adult - my spirit is unchanged. I support my body with exercise, my mind with reading and writing, and my spirit with the knowing that I am part of the Divine source of all life.
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I'm ambitious. But if I weren't as talented as I am ambitious, I would be a gross monstrosity.
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Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.
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I do believe that there are creative chakras or different sorts of energy centers.
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My Mum brought me up to believe that if you look after the pennies then the pounds look after themselves, and I could never do it.
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There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought.
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I don't want to say PSG is a step backwards, but It would be returning to something I already know. I'm always in for new challenges. When I will leave Chelsea one day, it would be to discover something new.
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I believe the world to be a muffin pan, and there certainly are a lot of muffins here.
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I hate heroin. It killed off a lot of my generation. It killed off a lot of my friends. Now this generation is getting killed off again. I can't believe it. How many dead bodies do we need to have piled up?
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Subway Symphony is a little idea I had to change the sound of the subway turnstiles into different pieces of music, depending on what station you're entering.
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The river and the sea can be kings of a hundred valleys, because they lie below them.
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It's exciting that you've got an entire season to experience 24 hours of highly dramatically charged human experience. It allows for the close inspection of minutiae in behaviour.
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Some handsome and ambitious men believe they are above all morality, and a woman's virtue becomes a mere challenge to them.
