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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The way we do music in Brazil is very different because we are so moved by music; we grow up with that.
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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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Every time you get something, give something away.
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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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My first big influences were more hip-hop based - people like DJ Shadow and Four Tet.
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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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The fascination for me is searching the unknown for a mystery.
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Law is born from despair of human nature.
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Everything about women is in perpetual crisis.
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One of the remarkable things about slums is that they do develop their own social organization and economy and even culture that is, on some level, functional and in some cases, remarkably resilient. This is kind of amazing.
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I always thought that digital first was a simplistic notion, and I am not even sure quite what it means. It should be stories first. Let's take the Paris story: the New York Times covered it all day, we held nothing back. Everything we learned, we published online. Then, when you approach your print deadline, you have to do two things. You have to polish those stories that are online because print is less forgiving of mistakes. Secondly, in an ideal world, you pick one thing that will feel fresh and compelling to people in the morning when they pick up the print paper.
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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.
