William Lewis Safir (William Safire) Quotes
To communicate, put your words in order; give them a purpose; use them to persuade, to instruct, to discover, to seduce.
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Of course, my faith has a lot to do with being able to be public without being a public nuisance.
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I posed nude to show my parents they couldn't dictate to me any more - that I control my life.
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We think of feminism as an academic subject, but it's not. If you think feminism is academic, you think there's a right or wrong.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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My music is not just about entertainment. It is about enlightenment also.
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Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.
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I have to protect my family and have a life with them that is completely private.
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I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.
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I love chocolate chip cookies - really anything with chocolate will do!
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Just as soaps were very pivotal in the transition from radio to television, they will be right in the thick of things again in the transition from television to the Internet. Exciting news.
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I can be very ordinary looking.
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Maybe entertainment is not supposed to be reality.
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I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren't.
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I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much.
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I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get no worse, he got worse.
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When I think of a story, somehow it just always seems to come out involving spooks and spies and government skullduggery.
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Where the Government is weak, military sway prevails.
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Judging ballplayers and turning in reports, giving my opinion of who will get to the big leagues and who will not... I think my baseball judgment was really good.
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Every novelist has a different purpose - and often several purposes which might even be contradictory.
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This is a good decision by the European Parliament to reduce the number of permits traded and is an important step forward for climate change policy.
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To communicate, put your words in order; give them a purpose; use them to persuade, to instruct, to discover, to seduce.
