William Lewis Safir (William Safire) Quotes
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For most of my time in Tallahassee, I did a lot of transportation.
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I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance.
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Ecuador is a country which defends the right to life.
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The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.
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It's very scary to turn things down, but a project has to really mean something to me. I'm not interested in making a lot of money.
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Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.
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Students are very gullible about the web. The only way you can really sort out information on the web is if you've had a prior training in book culture.
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What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.
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I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.
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I have fans, and I have family that love me, and I have my music, and I have my breath going in and out.
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
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Enforcement is the long overdue step to protect our Nation from external threats in a time of war. And then once we do that, we can effectively discuss a guest worker program.
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I try not to see Woody Harrelson because he has become this big movie star, and it grates, so I try and stay away from him.
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I love reading religious authors. Especially in the sort of circle I move in, people tend to be more secular, and I love reading books by just really smart people of religious faith. It's always a really cool perspective.
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That's why I'm really trying to produce my own stuff. This film was so good, because I produced it myself, and developed it, and made it with New Line, which is a smaller studio, so I was in control of a lot of stuff that I wasn't in control of for my other films.
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I couldn't find anyone doing something about the astounding injustices women were experiencing, so I decided to do something myself. I cannot tell you how many people ridiculed my efforts.
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Venezuela, given its extraordinary educational, cultural, and social developments, and its vast energy and natural resources, is called on to become a revolutionary model for the world.
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Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.
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I actually have an ice-skating background. I skated until I was 15, for about eight years. It was hardcore skating for about eight hours a day.
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Whenever I deliver a hit, I can see a glow on my father's face. Sometimes, I think he turns 10 to 15 years younger when I deliver a hit.
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Public figures will get public criticism, and they should be tolerant enough to take it.
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I'm a right-wing pundit and have been for many years.
