William Lewis Safir (William Safire) Quotes
As long as one American is hungry... then we have unfinished business in this country.
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.
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I think that T.V. shows are more like working at a home. You know you're going to the same place every day, working with the same people, the same cast and crew. You're in a dressing room instead of a trailer, so I think that that's more of a normal sort of lifestyle.
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To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
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If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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I try to stay focused.
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I am just getting into Zora Neale Hurston, who is possibly a much better writer than the critics and rivals who tried to erase her from history, resulting in a life in which she worked as a maid and died in a welfare nursing home. She's clever. She does something modern to the sentence.
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In the future, I want to do an action movie! I'm going to get in shape, get ripped, and have my Chris Pratt transformation. And then become a movie star like that.
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The last few years of my life have been a little like a long ride in a Poop de Ville with the bottom down.
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I say: The time has come for my courageous and proud people, after decades of displacement and colonial occupation and ceaseless suffering, to live like other peoples of the earth, free in a sovereign and independent homeland.
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My first audition was for a commercial for the lottery. I didn't get it, so I hate the lottery.
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I owe it all to Jesus.
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The words contained in it were inspired by the Holy Spirit into the minds of faithful men, called Prophets and Seers in the Old Testament; and Evangelists and Apostles in the New.
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I have been known to hang out and party back in the day. I had a weekend that lasted a few years.
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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
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I find Los Angeles to be a place of great physical beauty, in which you have the oceans and the mountains, and there's a vertical sense and a desert light that you can see forever.
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I don't know where Hank Aaron will break Ruth's record but I can tell you one thing - ten years from the day he hits it three million people will say they were there.
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I feel like the thing that motivates me is not making the Olympic team. If I'm having a rough day, I think about how bad I want it.
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Ryan Gosling's, like, my crush, but I don't really pay attention to his personal style.
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Change can be frightening, and the temptation is often to resist it. But change almost always provides opportunities - to learn new things, to rethink tired processes, and to improve the way we work.
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As I graduated from public schools and started working in newsrooms, I told myself that I am only the 'illegal' that my own country has not bothered to get to know.
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If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.
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As long as one American is hungry... then we have unfinished business in this country.
