William Lewis Safir (William Safire) Quotes
Decide on some imperfect Somebody and you will win, because the truest truism in politics is: You can't beat Somebody with Nobody.
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People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
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I have my problems with 'Singles'. To me, 'Singles' is the least successful of the movies I've been lucky enough to make.
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I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
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The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages.
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That was one of those moments where I felt so confident. I played three matches in the same day.
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You have to enjoy it. It is not going to happen every year, so this is the year that it is happening and we have got to go out there and enjoy it.
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I don't see a superstar out there. I don't see Georges St-Pierre coming back.
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When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.
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It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.
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I'm really boring. I get up early. I go to bed early. I don't smoke or drink. I mean, I'll eat a cupcake. I'm just not a crazy, stay-out-all-night sort of person. I love writing.
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Some guys play with their heads. That's okay. You've got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body.
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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I like 'The Three Musketeers.' I like those kind of cool things where they were having a robe and a sword.
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As soon as I get home, all I want to eat is seafood.
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Success is not about how much money we have in the bank, but it's about how many peoples' lives we have impacted through it. Success is experienced when we do things which are never done before.
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I see Baccarat in major gateway cities like Paris, Tokyo, Shanghai and Hong Kong and exotic resort locations.
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I happen to dig being able to use whatever mystique I have to further the idea of peace.
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At the beginning of the week, I roast a ton of vegetables so I can use them for the next few days. I also plan out meals in advance.
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I don't know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets.
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But I made no efforts to organize my supporters to hold on to the apparatus. Consequently I was soon expelled and my followers, who did not change coats overnight, quietly left or were expelled from the party.
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A human body is a conversation going on, both within the cells and between the cells, and they're telling each other to grow and to die; when you're sick, something's gone wrong with that conversation.
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The bigger budget films only shoot about a page or two a day, so there's very specific amount of time spent on detail and getting each tidbit exactly how they want it. In a movie or TV show, you shoot eight or ten pages and you aren't afforded as much time to do each scene.
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It is our nature to defy gravity, to transcend the limitations of the reasoning mind and connect with the realm of the mystical truth.
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Decide on some imperfect Somebody and you will win, because the truest truism in politics is: You can't beat Somebody with Nobody.
