William Lewis Safir (William Safire) Quotes
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The whole of our national sport is not doing very well.
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I have always believed the iron rule of politics was that women don't vote for men who yell.
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The options are war versus peace, and I am delighted that, so far, it appears that peaceful negotiation has won the day.
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Ethiopia is such a great country, beautiful place.
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Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as 'a wise Latina' trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism.
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I think I'm very old-fashioned.
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
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The State of Israel was not established by anxiety but, rather, through pride.
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Since we travel a lot as a team, I spend a lot of time on a plane where I like to play 'Football Manager.' I have been a soccer fan since I was 5 years old, so to be able to manage soccer teams is a lot of fun.
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Our culture is at its best when we protect and encourage the weakest. Every life - at every stage, in every place - has a dignity beyond our imagining.
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French men can be very tough too, you know... Real bad boys move in silence, as we know, so you don't have to be loud and muscular to be scary, actually.
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At its core, the United States is grateful, warm-hearted, full of unexpected twists and turns - not a cold and bullying prison - it's a place of infinite jest.
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China's government is so strong on investment, so strong on exporting, but they're too weak on domestic consumption.
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Laughter and grief join hands. Always the heart Clumps in the breast with heavy stride; The face grows lined and wrinkled like a chart, The eyes bloodshot with tears and tide. Let the wind blow, for many a man shall die.
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It seems like the good things that have happened in my career are things that you don't try to plan and push, and make it happen, it just seems to happen.
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Money for me today does not really matter.
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I have great respect for the semicolon; it is a mighty handy little fellow.
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Murder is about power and the more powerful women get the more it will change the good that they do and the bad that they do.
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The films that I do are deep, introspective, brooding roles that you're in this heavy headspace all the time.
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Medicine makes people ill, mathematics make them sad and theology makes them sinful.
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Air power speaks a strategic language so new that translation into the hackneyed idiom of the past is impossible.
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I was lucky to start working when German cinema was having an interesting moment. Now the quality is going downhill again because they're insisting on doing comedies. We should know by now that we make good cars but we're not the funniest people.
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You want your kids to grow with the right culture and values, and the toughest part would be finding out how to instill those values in your kids.
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When articulation is impossible, gesticulation comes to the rescue.
