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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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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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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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'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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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.
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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.
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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.
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As one civil-liberties lawyer, who is concerned about the sometimes vigilante attitude toward accused rapists, puts it: 'Some people regard rape as so heinous an offense that they would not even regard innocence as a defense.'
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The Capitol was an occasion where you arrive at a sign in the road that says you have arrived at a place you may not have expected to be, but you know how you got here: Next!
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My heritage is Pakistani, and I have loads of Pakistani fans on social media who I would love to connect with.
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I'm the biggest slob in the world. My apartment is a mess.
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And if you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide, I think, a certain measure of truth from the public, and I think that's very important for the American public to know.
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If a writer is always trying to keep a narrator emitting a tone of complete knowingness, it can become false.
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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.
