Morley Safer Quotes

The helicopter is a fine way to travel, but it induces a view of the world that only God and CEOs share on a regular basis.

Morley Safer

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• I love to come in and play with a wig or glasses or clothes. I love using props. I'm from the Peter Sellers school of trying to prepare for the character.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Trying
  • School
  • Love

• I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Live
  • Like
  • Audience

• A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Book
  • Man
  • Library

• As a result of 50 years of emancipation, feminine qualities were dying out or being transferred to the males. Pansies of both sexes were everywhere, not yet completely homosexual, but confused not knowing what they were. The result was a herd of unhappy sexual misfits... the women wanting to dominate and the men to be nannied.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Men
  • Women
  • Dying

• There's always going to be silly stuff out there in the media that you can't worry too much about, and I don't. We just keep on trucking, and I like the way my... I think there should be 'professional is professional, and personal is personal,' and that's just how I'm going to keep it.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Worry
  • Professional
  • Media

• Politicians read the polls that show 85 or 90 percent of the voters profess a belief in God, so they identify themselves with religion, often only to the degree necessary to reach the constituency they are targeting.

  

  Jack Germond
  • God
  • Religion
  • Belief

• The guys in Kiss use some make up too so at first it was exiting. I've almost stopped using make-up nowadays.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Up
  • First
  • Kiss

• I can't help but laugh at how perfect I am.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Perfect
  • Laugh

• You go to a technology conference or an engineering conference, there are very few women there. At the same time it's a blessing in the fact that you do get noticed. People tend to remember you as the only woman in the room 'who said that', or the only woman in the room who was an engineer.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • People
  • Time
  • Women

• I know more than anyone the divergent views about my father.

  

  Park Geun-hye
  • Father
  • Know
  • More

• I can only speak for myself and my own music, because that is what I am most familiar with, and I write about things that I am living or experiencing.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Music
  • Myself
  • Living

• I've had a lot of struggles and I would be in a lot of trouble, I think, if I wasn't a Christian.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Think
  • Christian
  • Trouble

• Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Men
  • Women
  • Rights

• 'Don't Look Now' is a masterpiece. I think it's the best-edited movie of all time. I adore it.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Think

• I did not stop dancing; I did take two years off to get myself together.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
  • Together
  • Stop
  • Myself

• I think legislation needs to put an end to doctors profiting on businesses to which they can funnel patients - that is business, not medicine. If you try to call it medicine, then it is corruption. Without legislation, it will keep happening.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Business
  • End
  • Corruption

• The most common cause of low prices is pessimism - some times pervasive, some times specific to a company or industry. We want to do business in such an environment, not because we like pessimism but because we like the prices it produces. It's optimism that is the enemy of the rational buyer.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Business
  • Environment
  • Enemy

• As I've gone through life, I've found that your chances for happiness are increased if you wind up doing something that is a reflection of what you loved most when you were somewhere between nine and eleven years old.

  

  Walter Murch
  • Life
  • Up
  • Wind

• Brand matters. And ESPN is, by far, the most popular sports brand. People trust ESPN.

  

  John Skipper
  • People
  • Trust
  • Sports

• I need to tell the world what I'm about, my nature, because not doing so would be teaching my children how to lie. I didn't want it to be.

  

  Ricky Martin
  • World
  • Children
  • Nature

• If I had only one hour to save the world, I would spend fifty-five minutes defining the problem, and only five minutes finding the solution.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • World
  • Problem
  • Solution

• I love creating characters that people may or may have not ever seen before. But I enjoy the opportunity to try to make something new, and that's when I really come alive as an actor, so I really enjoyed working on 'Arrow.'

  

  J. August Richards
  • People
  • Love
  • May

• 'Brotherhood of the Wolf' is a very important movie because it represents something new. The director Christophe Gans came up with the idea of taking a French legend and making it some kind of really strange, almost Chinese action movie. The result is something that I haven't seen anywhere before.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Up
  • Important
  • Movie

• The helicopter is a fine way to travel, but it induces a view of the world that only God and CEOs share on a regular basis.

  

  Morley Safer
  • World
  • Travel
  • Views