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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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 have great admiration for the way the Americans do business. They drive a hard bargain, but once they do it, they stick to their contracts.
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I think good publicists are just like good mommies - always looking out, making sure folks are comfortable and making sure that folks are on time and making sure that folks are getting what they need and know what they need to do.
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The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.
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The only reason that there has been no sabotage or espionage on the part of Japanese-Americans is that they are waiting for the right moment to strike.
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'He is dead,' we cried, and even amid that gloomThe wintry veil was rent! The new-born dayShowed us the Angel seated in the tombAnd the stone rolled away.
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One doesn’t just chuck away the story of one’s life, however much one wishes it had read differently.
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As long as one American is hungry... then we have unfinished business in this country.
