George Weigel Quotes
Democracy is always an unfinished experiment, testing the capacity of each generation to live freedom nobly.
Quotes to Explore
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In Iraq we must succeed. Failure is not an option.
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There's nothing wrong with being anthropomorphic. That's how we understand the world.
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In the Muslim world, there are many people who have been vocal and we have been very vocal against extremists. But how to win this battle is an ongoing battle. And we must continue to wage the battle for peace.
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In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.
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When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.
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You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty.
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I was a commercial girl. In drama school, I was a mediocre model occasionally to pick up some extra cash, and because clearly I'm not six feet tall, and I had baby weight, I would mainly just would do promotional stuff.
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Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.
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I'm not even kind of a lesbian.
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My dream is to stand in front of 60,000 people in an arena and know that everyone came because they wanted to make memories with me.
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Humor is a part of spirituality.
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In this part of the world, Jews and Arabs will live together forever.
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I don't worry about chemicals. There are enough chemicals entering my body through all the fizzy drinks I consume to worry if my lip balm is 100 per cent organic.
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My goal would be to make Frank Capra-type films about real people, how they define their reality.
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Allen Iverson was the Tupac of basketball; he was a true revolutionary.
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I was thinking 'Love Story', obviously, was a romantic film of that time.
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I think I'd be more relaxed as an older mum, although fundamentally life with a baby is pretty much the same whatever age you are. It's nappies, crying, feeding.
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When I look at China's environmental problems, the real barrier is not lack of technology or money. It's lack of motivation.
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When I was young I would spend more money than I should with my credit card but my father cut it off, so I had to find creative ways of making money.
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Sad to see the history and culture of our great country being ripped apart with the removal of our beautiful statues and monuments. You can't change history, but you can learn from it. Robert E Lee, Stonewall Jackson - who's next, Washington, Jefferson? So foolish!
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Falling on your face when you’re young and good looking is one thing, but when you’re an old man it can be quite humiliating.
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There’s no such thing as `one, true way’; the only answers worth having are the ones you find for yourself; leave the world better than you found it. Love, freedom, and the chance to do some good — they’re the things worth living and dying for, and if you aren’t willing to die for the things worth living for, you might as well turn in your membership in the human race.
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Democracy is always an unfinished experiment, testing the capacity of each generation to live freedom nobly.
