William Lewis Safir (William Safire) Quotes
The CEO era gave rise to the CFO (not certified flying object, as you might imagine, but chief financial officer) and, most recently, the CIO, chief investment officer, a nice boost for the bookkeeper you can't afford to give a raise . . .
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I have a song about being in love. I have a song about being supportive. There's inspiring ones, and there's some that show a little bit more fun and daring. It really is a range of who I am.
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Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.
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You don't have to get it right the first time.
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I'm a paleoanthropologist, and my job is to define man's place in nature and explore what makes us human.
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I managed Hewlett Packard through the worst technology downturn in 25 years, the dotcom bust.
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When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.
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I'm a vegetarian and very much active in regards to how I feel about animal rights and protecting animals and giving animals a voice. But at the same time, I appreciate and respect other people's decisions to eat meat. The only thing that I hope is that people are educated, that they're aware, that they're living a conscious lifestyle.
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There was this cereal, and it had a special promotion with a CD inside the box that had a really simple music-making program on it. I got it, and that opened my mind to being able to make music on a computer and seeing all the different layers.
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I just look at what's going on in the world.
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The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
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Back in the '70s - I remember the '70s: we were told there was global cooling. And everyone was told global cooling was a really big problem. And then that faded.
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I love stories about two people who are doing illegal things, who we really enjoy watching despite the fact that we know they are doomed in some way.
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I started out as a dancer as a kid; I've been dancing since I was 4. So, performing was always part of what I was. I don't know if it I enjoyed the response I got from people or if I liked having an audience, but there's something in me that wanted to perform.
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I'm an entrepreneur. I'm married to an entrepreneur. So I haven't just sipped the entrepreneurship cool-aid, I bleed this stuff.
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I shop more than most women.
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There are people worse off than me. I've had a very long run. I'm fine really. I'm just old.
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With my writing, what I want to do is humanize the young people I write about.
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I eat quite healthily normally but, like everyone, have relapses and give in to the odd cake.
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All girls know that they can be anything now. That transformation is to me one of the most satisfying things.
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Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.
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It's nice to be recognized, but it's not great to have it too conspicuously recognized, if you see what I mean. Gold records on the wall, or titles after your name, it's just not something... I don't feel that great about it.
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The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision.
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The CEO era gave rise to the CFO (not certified flying object, as you might imagine, but chief financial officer) and, most recently, the CIO, chief investment officer, a nice boost for the bookkeeper you can't afford to give a raise . . .
