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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If one's careful study of the facts shows that the Catholic Church is correct about Jesus-his life, teachings, death, and Resurrection-then why not give the Church the benefit of the doubt and carefully study her reasons for rejecting contraception, homosexual acts, and women's ordination?
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everything is too important ever to be entrusted to professional experts, because every organization of such professionals and every established social organization becomes a vested-interest institution more concerned with its efforts to maintain itself or advance its own interests than to achieve the purpose that society expects it to achieve.
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It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages.
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One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.
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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.
