William Lewis Safir (William Safire) Quotes
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Age for me is just a number.
Haile Gebrselassie -
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.
Said Sayrafiezadeh -
You think about taking audiences on a journey.
Sam Mendes -
Chipotles, which are dried jalapeno peppers, give out a terrific smoky flavour - they're warm, earthy and usually not too spicy.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
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.
Harry Caray -
Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
Warren E. Burger
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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.
Laura Chinchilla -
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.
Madeleine Stowe -
I don't know why, but I respond well to tortured characters.
Halle Berry -
There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
Oscar Wilde -
I always try to start my weekend by running on the beach, which is great fun here in Barcelona.
Daniel Bruhl -
A cap on carbon is important because it sets a specific goal for reducing carbon emissions 80% by 2050.
Frances Beinecke
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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.
I. M. Pei -
My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
Eartha Kitt -
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.'
Cameron Winklevoss -
You win as a team, you lose as a team, you also do so many things together.
Eddie Murray -
A brief short story may require only a few paragraphs after the climax. On the other hand, in his massive novel 'The World According to Garp,' John Irving's denouement consisted of 10 separate sections, each devoted to an individual character's fate and each almost a story in itself.
Nancy Kress -
Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
Samuel Johnson
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Life is precious, and when someone dies it's an opportunity to realise how precious it is. My brother drowned when I was 17. He was 15. I think I grew from that. My father didn't. It really crushed him.
Val Kilmer -
There are many young Americans that are very distant from our political process.
Kurt Angle -
I don't want to lose what I've won.
Rafael dos Anjos -
By the time I discovered Chicano painters in the mid-'80s, I recognized that these guys were really world-class painters, but they weren't getting any attention, which was good in one sense in that I could get their work for cheaper!
Cheech Marin -
Don't expect others to do your work for you.
William Lewis Safir