William Lewis Safir (William Safire) Quotes
The wonderful thing about being a New York Times columnist is that it's like a Supreme Court appointment - they're stuck with you for a long time.
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In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
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I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it's not for them. It's for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.
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I'm not shy about trying to find what truth there is in any genre, whether that be an action piece, a sci-fi piece, a small indie film, or a play. I'm open to it all.
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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Yoga takes what you have and molds and sculpts it, which is a much more natural way to look and feel.
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My sense of politics and justice was deeply shaped in adolescence by my involvement with the underground punk - rock scene, and though lots of social and political issues had come forth in my comics, it wasn't until my late 20s that I felt properly equipped to address certain issues of race, power, and violence in my work.
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My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.
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I always feel that most people out there who aren't sure if the gym is really for them aren't prepared to pay and find out.
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Have I been wiretapped? Yes. But who they said wiretapped me was incorrect.
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Unfortunately, the greatest photographers don't pay extreme attention to the clothes. If they decide to put a dress in a bathtub or in front of a cow in the countryside with dirt everywhere, well, the dresses come back... ready to be put in the garbage.
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I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's not usually on purpose.
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In recent years, the government has lost more than five million fingerprints from government employees. They have lost hundreds of millions of credit numbers from financial institutions. This problem is happening more and more and more. And the only way we can protect ourselves is to make phones more and more secure.
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If I had my druthers, I would be a brain in a jar, with a burlap skirt around the cart I'm on - I don't attend to my physical being much.
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I'm a television junkie.
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I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were.
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I also found being called Sir rather silly.
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There's a long life ahead of you and it's going to be beautiful, as long as you keep loving and hugging each other.
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New York is such a diverse place in and of itself, it would be ridiculous to see it otherwise.
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Xerox is really good at managing documents, and we're definitely good at managing through a process.
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I have been taking every step toward the future every day through making many paintings and sculptures with my deep emotion hidden in my life.
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My father played with Air Supply, Yes, B.B. King and even Sheryl Crow when she first started out, so I've sort of been around the industry for a long time.
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The human race needs a time out from all this techno-magic-mischief, a period to reflect on what we've done and how we ought to behave with this stuff.
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Man is a creative animal, doomed to strive toward a goal, engaged in full-time engineering.
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The wonderful thing about being a New York Times columnist is that it's like a Supreme Court appointment - they're stuck with you for a long time.
