William Lewis Safir (William Safire) Quotes
... it's Bush's baby, even if he shares its popularization with Gorbachev. Forget the Hitler 'new order' root; F.D.R. used the phrase earlier.

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Until you've been to Cannes, it's hard to describe to someone the magnitude of that festival.
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I have my team. Like if you see everyone around me - I have my hair and makeup girl, my assistant. They're very calm, they're all about positive energy. There're no drama queens. Everyone wants everyone else to have a positive experience. There are no agendas. I think it creates a healthy environment and there are no boundaries to cross.
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You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity involved is complex and nuanced.
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I would do fragrance. I'm a fragrance fanatic.
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The only lottery I've ever won was a $100 scratch-off card at age 16, and the 7-Eleven clerk who sold it to me said I was too young to claim my winnings.
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Any effort to create a second class of Americans, I just can't swallow that.
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Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
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I am going to enjoy some other things apart from business.
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I don't know how it started but someone must have noticed I was always chewing tobacco or smoking a pipe.
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Those of us born into vitalist and expressionist cultures must hope that governments will draw back from shutting down the modernist project of exploring, experimenting, and imagining - of voyaging into the unknown - that has been essential for rewarding lives.
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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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With modeling, you are the client and you give them what they want... with music, it is all about you, people are buying into you as a person.
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When I was little, I wanted to be an astronomer, but that didn't happen.
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I sometimes think if I had gone to Oxford or Cambridge and looked like a handsome young guy who could be in an Evelyn Waugh novel or something, I'd be a massive movie star. But there's a longevity to what I do. It's more reliable. Someone isn't deciding that I'm the next big thing.
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If I had not been dyslexic, I wouldn't have needed sports. I would have been like every other kid. Instead, I found my one thing, and I was never going to let go of it. That little dyslexic kid is always in the back of your head.
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Keeping your space clean is as much a part of the end result as the dish being tasty.
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When I'm in the midst of finishing a book, I can be working around the clock.
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Usually, when I walk on a wire, I inspect the anchor point on both sides before crossing.
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I'm interested in fashion; I buy fairly good pieces, and I think as I've gotten older, I've pared down a lot.
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In any city with lots of skyscrapers, lots of skyline, the moon seems bigger than it is. It's called the moon illusion.
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If you have been wise and successful I congratulate you. Unless you are unable to forget how successful you have been, then I pity you.
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It's weird when people ask me, "Why are you so nice?" It's like, "Because that's just what you should do. You should be kind to people." It seems really basic, but it's amazing how many people forget that.
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... it's Bush's baby, even if he shares its popularization with Gorbachev. Forget the Hitler 'new order' root; F.D.R. used the phrase earlier.