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 always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you should write what you have to write, and if you're afraid it's going to upset someone, don't publish it.
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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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The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.
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I can't help moving my face - reacting - when I watch a movie, because I'm really inhabiting a character. I know this is weird, but it demonstrates what I love about cinema: it allows you to live a different life, to have a different experience, to disappear for two hours. I think it's wonderful.
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It's important for Republicans to nominate someone who not only has a vision of how to create jobs, but who has done it. That's why I am endorsing Texas Governor Rick Perry for President.
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I would rather be a person who struggled there than someone who had a great, easy time and then got out in the world and was like, "Wait a minute, I didn't get voted class president? What's going on?" You know, "popular" doesn't necessarily correlate to anything. "Popular" still has to get up at 7:00 in the morning and go to work and do something worthy too. There's no edge, really, that you get from being whatever was popular in school.
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Carter is the best President the Soviet Union ever had.
