William Lewis Safir (William Safire) Quotes
Writers who used to show off their erudition no longer sing in the bare ruined choir of the media.William Lewis Safir
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There will be many types of assets codified into the blockchain, and they are all not just going to be on the bitcoin blockchain - it's going to be a number of different assets here. And the best way to invest in that is a diversified portfolio.
Olaf Carlson-Wee -
We always see abhorrent behavior and say why, but then we get mad when somebody tries to answer.
Wendell Pierce -
I have such a dancer's spirit that I tend to leap around the house. Once I leaped onto my bed and landed on the floor. But I danced more for myself than I did for other people.
T'Keyah Crystal Keymah -
I take four planes a week, honestly. You know, I am for intelligence screening.
Aaron Schock -
All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.
V. S. Naipaul -
Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
Dan Gertler
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It's kind of fun to be sexy.
Tea Leoni -
The catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons require that it be treated as a top priority. Disarmament will work better than any alternative in reducing the risk of use.
Ban Ki-moon -
We know that Texas is more than a state. Texas has always been a promise. The promise that where you start has nothing to do with how far you can come.
Wendy Davis -
I usually get up between 7 A.M. and 8 A.M., have coffee, and go right to work. It's really important not to get sidetracked in the morning so I'm still in that dreamy state for my writing.
Rachel Kushner -
I really woke up one morning and said, you know, 'I haven't seen a good film about the American Revolution. And all the ones I have seen haven't been successful, but I'm going to make a successful one.' Well, I wasn't able to do that.
Irwin Winkler -
As my blog editor knows all too well, I wasn't all that keen to enter the blogosphere world.
Warren Bennis
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When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project.
Vernor Vinge -
People love talking about the banality of evil and the fact that ordinary people do bad things. I actually want to stay away from that.
Karan Mahajan -
The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
Orson Welles -
I'm a horrible perfectionist and very highly strung. That's why I do yoga: to unwind.
Felicity Jones -
For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.
Samuel Butler -
I am insecure. Everyone's insecure.
Manolo Blahnik
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The whole freedom-of-speech thing is great. But I don't think that our Founding Fathers predicted social media when they created all of these amendments and stuff.
Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson -
What the media is playing is what people want is really a false idea. Capitalism and people who control the market have a large hand in everything. It doesn't have anything to do with figuring out what the crowd wants to hear. It has to do with the media deciding what they think people want to hear.
Boots Riley -
The more people, as you know, are able to be on whatever spectrum of femininity and masculinity they are on at that moment, that opens the door for women to not have to be the opposite of what the supposed traditional male is.
Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill -
You know, I think I did originally have some sort of idea of maybe a Where Eagles Dare kind of mission against impossible odds, but it really sort of died before I had a chance to really go anywhere with it, and then just doing the book was out of the question.
Garth Ennis -
Writers who used to show off their erudition no longer sing in the bare ruined choir of the media.
William Lewis Safir