William Safire Quotes

What do you call a co-worker these days? Neither teammate nor confederate will do, and partner is too legalistic. The answer brought from academia to the political world by Henry Kissinger and now bandied in the boardroom is colleague. It has a nice upper-egalitarian feel, related to the good fellowship of collegial.

William Safire

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Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 17, 1929 - September 27, 2009

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In my era of wrestling, there were no guaranteed contracts, so it was inherent that you draw the crowd in to make money.

Jesse Ventura

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I actually do like playing off-beat people. I think it's more fun.

John Travolta

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Throughout history, the organizational evolution of the military has been inextricably linked with that of the business world.

Stanley A. McChrystal

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The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible.

Toni Cade Bambara

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Music is great; it all depends on what mood you're in, what you want to listen to. If it's party time, you listen to, you know, party music, if you want to dance with somebody. But then again, if it's a slow dance, you need something slow.

Tom Jones

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My approach in general is to take really great care of my skin, but I try not to overdo it and not use too many crazy products.

Mary Helen Bowers

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First and foremost, food needs to be delicious. It should pop and explode with flavor. Food should please all the senses.

Johnny Iuzzini

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When I'm online, I'm alone in a room, tapping on a keyboard, staring at a cathode-ray tube.

Clifford Stoll

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Work is spiritual. It is a place where we have the opportunity for spiritual growth. Often, these opportunities come from the 'how' of the ways we do our work rather than the 'what' of the work itself.

Anne Wilson Schaef

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The art of leadership is not to spend your time measuring, evaluating. It's all about selecting the person. And if you believe you selected the right person, then you give that person the freedom, the authority, the delegation to innovate and to lead with some very simple measure.

Pierre Nanterme

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Fossil fuels and mining is a short-term gambit. If we develop those resources at the expense of the environmental gold mine that is the Great Barrier Reef, we will all lose in the long run.

Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

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Family farms and small businesses are the backbone of our communities.

Tom Allen

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