William Lewis Safir (William Safire) Quotes
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Now, do I think the baby boomers tend to be self-absorbed? I do.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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Entrepreneurship is the very back bone of our country and what makes us great - we are a nation of founders.
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I'm going to get hated for saying this, but honestly, fantasy is easy to write because you can do anything. It's like when Raymond Chandler brings in a bloke with a gun when he's stuck - in fantasy, up pops a wizard, and off we go.
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I can never really remember what I look like. I'm just sort of neutral. I don't think I'm sort of, you know, hideous.
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Fiction is optimistic or unrealistic enough to demand that there should be a meaningful narrative.
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Saying no frees you up to say yes when it matters most.
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People relate to me, and I try to make songs that make people smile.
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I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.
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Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
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Hope is the most important four-letter word in the language.
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Maybe it's a little depressing to think that my vision of a perfect world is actually so messed up, but I think it means that I don't really understand what 'perfect' is.
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I can make them voting machines sing Home Sweet Home.
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On the taxing of banks, we have to find the level at which they squeal but still pay and open up the next day.
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Our publicist at Warner Brothers is a young guy who has worked so hard for seven years with us and when we saw him backstage he broke down and cried. He couldn't believe it happened. It was seeing him so overcome when we realised how much it really meant.
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What I don't like to hear in music is something has not been thought through: that a sound is just there randomly. I want to make sure that every single little noise that's in my song is there because it's supposed to be there.
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To be among the world's greatest athletes and compete for Team U.S.A. while knowing that the entire world is watching is something that athletes dream about. To be able to experience that was truly special.
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The focus of Congress is on keeping the nation secure - and it doesn't see that food security is an essential part of that responsibility. Instead of putting more food on the tables of America, they are busy finding ways to take it away.
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Courage doesn't always involve physical heroism in the face of death. It doesn't always require giant leaps worthy of celebration. Sometimes, courage is the willingness to speak the truth about what you see and to own what you say.
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Increasingly people live in an artifact and become artifacts themselves, feel satisfied, feel fit for that artifact insofar as they themselves have been manipulated.
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Little by little the look of the country changes because of the men we admire.
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If I can be a leader, I will.
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I snowboard because I love it. It's just a cool way to be out there and doing something different instead of going to college.
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Of higher value than any one leader is the cause.
