William Lewis Safir (William Safire) Quotes
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Age for me is just a number.
Haile Gebrselassie
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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.
Said Sayrafiezadeh
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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
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You think about taking audiences on a journey.
Sam Mendes
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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?
Felix Dennis
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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.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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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.
Harry Caray
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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
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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.
Madeleine Stowe
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Acting was all I ever really wanted to do.
Kate Walsh
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I don't know why, but I respond well to tortured characters.
Halle Berry
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When you decide to do this kind of music then you just accept the facts.
Gary Numan
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There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
Oscar Wilde
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I always try to start my weekend by running on the beach, which is great fun here in Barcelona.
Daniel Bruhl
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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
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My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
Eartha Kitt
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A glad zest and hopefulness might be inspired even in the most jaded and ennui-cursed, were there in our homes such simple, truthful natures as that of my heroine, and it is in the sphere of quiet homes-not elsewhere-I believe that a woman can best rule and save the world.
T. C. Boyle
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When you are at the Olympic Games, it comes down to a ten thousandth of a hair between making the next round or winning a race or getting second or third.
Apolo Ohno
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Kids feel like they have to puff up or shrink. These reclusive qualities begin to develop because you feel that who you are is going to either be accepted or rejected by your family and friends.
Mahershala Ali
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But I think it's quite clear in my work that my orientation isn't political or doesn't come out of modern politics.
Jane Campion
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Don't expect others to do your work for you.
William Lewis Safir