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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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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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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I used to make all my clothes when I was in Southern Death Cult [the first incarnation of The Cult]. I still make things to wear on stage and I am involved with sketching, choosing fabric, cutting.
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Great pressure is brought to bear to make us undervalue ourselves. On the other hand, civilization teaches that each of us is an inestimable prize. There are, then, these two preparations: one for life and the other for death. Therefore we value and are ashamed to value ourselves.
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Its authors meant it to be... a stumbling block to those who in after times might seek to turn a free people back into the hateful paths of despotism. They knew the proneness of prosperity to breed tyrants, and they meant when such should re-appear in this fair land and commence their vocation they should find left for them at least one hard nut to crack.
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It is important to be in love with love.
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Of higher value than any one leader is the cause.
