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.
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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.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The guys in Kiss use some make up too so at first it was exiting. I've almost stopped using make-up nowadays.
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I can make my own decisions, I can do the music I like. If I fail, it's me failing - you know.
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I can't help but laugh at how perfect I am.
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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.
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I know more than anyone the divergent views about my father.
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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.
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I've had a lot of struggles and I would be in a lot of trouble, I think, if I wasn't a Christian.
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Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.
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'Don't Look Now' is a masterpiece. I think it's the best-edited movie of all time. I adore it.
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I did not stop dancing; I did take two years off to get myself together.
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Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
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Used properly, cinema is the coolest thing in the world.
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Giving gifts to others is a fundamental activity, as old as humanity itself. Yet in the modern, complex world, the particulars of gift-giving can be extraordinarily challenging.
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My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.
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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.
