William Lewis Safir (William Safire) Quotes
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If a division becomes insolvent, the credit markets' reaction to that is immediate - regardless of what period of time you think you have to remedy.
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The correlation of quality of life and cost of energy is huge.
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I've always been a very confident person, and I know how important it is to take advantage when life gives you opportunity.
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There is nothing more exciting in sport when the top two countries in the world are battling for the Ashes.
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I just thought any workout that is effective and I can do while laying down I'm signing up for.
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My dad was a kind of semiprofessional Dixieland-type drummer, and I learned the drums from him. When I was about twelve, we bought our first Ludwig drum set from a pawnshop - a marching-band bass drum, great big tom-toms, and big, deep snare drums.
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We convinced him quickly that the possibility of war was absolutely nil and continued our festivity. On the next day we were ordered to take the field.
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I'll let the people decide what they think is good taste.
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I don't approve of the notion that we should be announcing who should step down from the position of a head of a state unless we are seriously prepared to remove that person. But if we are not, if we are being prudent and careful, then let's also be careful with how we talk.
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The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century.
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We've seen the power of the PC, and we've seen that it's unstoppable.
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I work a lot with my ski sponsor, Head, to develop new technologies.
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I was born to hit a baseball. I can hit a baseball.
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The accusation that we've lost our soul resonates with a very modern concern about authenticity.
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It is absolutely clear that government plays a key role, as a catalyst, in promoting long-run growth.
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It's a trip but it hasn't crossed over to the point where women are throwing their panties at me.
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I stopped acting when I was 19. The only time I acted again was during the war, when there were no other Nazis available.
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Procrastinating is a vice when it comes to productivity, but it can be a virtue for creativity.
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I got all the respect in the world for the front-runners in this race, but ask yourself: If we replace a Democratic insider with a Republican insider, you think we're really going to change Washington, D.C.? You don't have to settle for Washington and Wall Street insiders who supported the Wall Street bailout and the Obamacare individual mandate.
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The Federal Reserve's job is to do the right thing, to take the long-run interest of the economy to heart, and that sometimes means being unpopular. But we have to do the right thing.
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Remember, Donald Trump started his career back in 1973 being sued by the Justice Department for racial discrimination because he would not rent apartments in one of his developments to African-Americans, and he made sure that the people who worked for him understood that was the policy. He actually was sued twice by the Justice Department.
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I have no problem doing gay stuff, I really don't care.
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Carter is the best President the Soviet Union ever had.