Morley Safer Quotes

Arrogance and snobbism live in adjoining rooms and use a common currency.

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• There are fans of Twenty20 cricket, and we need to ensure that we give them the cricket they want to see. We need to keep Test cricket alive, because there is a section of fans who love and worship Test cricket and have basically helped this game grow, and they are as important as anybody else.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Important
  • Fans
  • Give

• I'm a Christian guy, and when it comes to my priorities, it's the utmost. For me, just to calm myself down, to keep my perspective when I'm playing, to not make too big a deal of it... that's where I go to. The peace that comes with that allows me to play free golf.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Guy
  • Free
  • Me

• For every SF reader of that period, Robert A. Heinlein was also a touchstone.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Period
  • Robert
  • SF

• When I go out, I love steak and caviar.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Love
  • Steak
  • Caviar

• I moved back to Tennessee in '86 or '87. That's when I worked with the Carter Family because I really wanted to understand my roots.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Family
  • Understand
  • Roots

• Seattle is a fantastic place to build a great technology-enabled consumer company.

  

  Dan Levitan
  • Great
  • Technology
  • Place

• In the arts they call it plagiarism, in business they call it competition.

  

  Andrew Mason
  • Business
  • Competition

• The absence of words is the absence of intimacy. There are experiences that are starved for language.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Words
  • Language
  • Intimacy

• People waiting for an elevator don't know what to do, standing with strangers. There is nothing to do. Its an uneasy time. Some press the button repeatedly as though it would help.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • People
  • Time
  • Help

• If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away,If he doesn't want you, nothing can make him stay. Stop making excuses for a man and his behavior. Stop trying to change yourself for a relationship that's not meant to be. Slower is better. Never live your life for a man before you find what makes you truly happy..!

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Live
  • Trying

• There are so many ways to be and to be black at the same time, but we're finally seeing that full range expressed much more widely than before.

  

  Baratunde Thurston
  • Time
  • Black
  • Way

• Over more than a decade, Iran had moved ahead with its nuclear program. And before the deal, it had installed nearly 20,000 centrifuges that could enrich uranium for a nuclear bomb.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Iran
  • Uranium
  • Nuclear Bomb

• I try not to be too plot-heavy and to balance the dramatic with the comedic.

  

  Edward Burns
  • Balance
  • Dramatic
  • Comedic

• Being a rapper is about being cool, but being a comedian, you're not supposed to be the coolest guy.

  

  Aziz Ansari
  • Guy
  • Cool
  • Comedian

• Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Common
  • Two
  • Common Sense

• I love Death because he breaks the human pattern and frees us from pleasures too prolonged as well as from the pains of this world. It is pleasant, too, to remember that Death lies in our hands; he must come if we call him. ... I think if there were no death, life would be more than flesh and blood could bear.

  

  Stevie Smith
  • Life
  • World
  • Remember

• The evacuation of Petersburg and Richmond, and the surrender of the principal insurgent army, give hope of a righteous and speedy peace whose joyous expression can not be restrained. In the midst of this, however, He, from Whom all blessings flow, must not be forgotten. A call for a national thanksgiving is being prepared, and will be duly promulgated.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Army
  • Insurgent
  • Evacuation

• Arrogance and snobbism live in adjoining rooms and use a common currency.

  

  Morley Safer
  • Common
  • Currency
  • Arrogance