William Lewis Safir (William Safire) Quotes
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Age for me is just a number.
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I need to feel as if everything is clean and in its proper place before I can even attempt to write one word. At least, that's what I tell myself. I make the bed, I put away the dishes, maybe I dust, maybe I do the laundry, maybe I go to the post office.
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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
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You think about taking audiences on a journey.
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With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?
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Chipotles, which are dried jalapeno peppers, give out a terrific smoky flavour - they're warm, earthy and usually not too spicy.
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It's the fans that need spring training. You gotta get 'em interested. Wake 'em up and let 'em know that their season is coming, the good times are gonna roll.
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
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We want to allow Costa Ricans to make a qualitative leap in our development and go to an economy based on innovation and developing a broadband infrastructure in order to overcome the barrier of 15 per cent penetration.
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He also didn't like a lock of my hair and said that he couldn't get into the moment without the hair being just right. I quietly knew that he was anxious and that the hairdo wasn't the real issue. But we all let it go and came back to the scene sometime later.
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I don't know why, but I respond well to tortured characters.
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There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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I always try to start my weekend by running on the beach, which is great fun here in Barcelona.
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A cap on carbon is important because it sets a specific goal for reducing carbon emissions 80% by 2050.
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Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history, but it's not very deep.
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My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
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People say it's a Ponzi scheme, it's a bubble. People really don't want to take it seriously. At some point, that narrative will shift to 'virtual currencies are here to stay.'
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You win as a team, you lose as a team, you also do so many things together.
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Fame is definitely a monster: it can suck you in and spit you out and change you. The biggest challenge is to remain yourself regardless of what people say about you.
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Nothing could be older than the daily news, nothing deader than yesterday's newspaper.
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It is very difficult to get legislation passed. But then the danger always is that you have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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Don't expect others to do your work for you.
