William Lewis Safir (William Safire) Quotes
Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.
William Lewis Safir
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My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms - just you and her, and it's one o'clock in the morning, and you're waiting for her to exhale - you just think, life's too bloody short to argue about the little things.
Saffron Aldridge
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I've never been one to run from a challenge.
Patrick Swayze
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The thing I really like about Twitter is the speed with which information reaches me. You find out things from Twitter long before they're on the news. That, I think, is valuable.
Salman Rushdie
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The first prize for any production is, if you can find a location that means you don't have to build sets, that will serve, and is not excessively expensive to hire, then it can save you a lot of money.
Gavid Hood
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I was never supposed to make it to Congress. I was a staff person.
Dan Maffei
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I've been just eating very healthy, all organic, no sugar, white flour, nothing artificial. I'm being so incredibly strict... not a lot of meat!
Danica McKellar
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The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
Nancy Astor
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There are jobs, particularly database-oriented ones, for which computers are necessary, but for everyday office life, I question whether they have brought the productivity that their enormous cost, up to £10,000 per person, demands.
Felix Dennis
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Santorum is the greatest person on the face of the planet as far as I'm concerned.
Foster Friess
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Unfortunately, the Senate Democrats have become an extreme party. They have become a party that has abdicated their responsibilities. Under Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats, we have a do-nothing Senate.
Ted Cruz
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As a kid at school, I had a lot of really good teachers and I had a lot of really bad teachers, and I just know how much of an impact those can have on a young child. To be one of the good teachers - I want to have that kind of impact.
Rachel Hurd-Wood
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I just sort of go along and say what I think -and that's all you can do in life, really.
Karl Pilkington
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My film knowledge is pretty shocking. I'm trying to correct that.
Daisy Ridley
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The one thing I am now sure of is that if there is such a thing as destiny, it is a result of our passion, be that for money, power, or love. Passion, for better or worse.
M. J. Rose
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I was doing these music videos online for a couple years, and they'd be doing well to varying degrees. And I released an album, and with the album, I released three new music videos, and one of them was featured on Jezebel.
Rachel Bloom
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You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
Sam J. Jones
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A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December.
Earl Weaver
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In the course of the reform, some new circumstances that we had not anticipated have appeared.
Zhu Rongji
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I guess I am sometimes over the top on stage, but then, that is my personality. I'm over the top in real life, too.
Mandy Patinkin
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Nothing is more debilitating than to care about something you can't do anything about. And you can't do anything about your adult children. You can want better for them, and maybe even begin to provide something for them, but in the long run, you cannot do anything about someone else's vibration other than hold them in the best light you can, mentally, and then project that to them. And sometimes, distance makes that much more possible than being up close to them.
Esther Hicks
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You could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You create a distance.
Lars von Trier
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Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.
William Lewis Safir
