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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Acting was all I ever really wanted to do.
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I don't know why, but I respond well to tortured characters.
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When you decide to do this kind of music then you just accept the facts.
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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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The first reason for psychology's failure to understand what people are and how they act, is that clinicians and psychiatrists, who are generally the theoreticians on these matters, have essentially made up myths without any evidence to support them; the second reason for psychology's failure is that personality theory has looked for inner traits when it should have been looking for social context.
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I have my aluminum siding business, and that's going like a house afire.
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The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society.
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In no direction that we turn do we find ease or comfort. If we are honest and if we have the will to win we find only danger, hard work and iron resolution.
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My generation was born to work with social media - it's a natural part of our communication with the world.
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Don't expect others to do your work for you.
