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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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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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 you make a promise, keep it.
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Although we talk so much about coincidence we do not really believe in it. In our heart of hearts we think better of the universe, we are secretly convinced that it is not such a slipshod, haphazard affair, that everything in it has meaning.
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You looked so intense. Whatever you were saying, you seemed to mean it, and it wasn't amusing at all. Started quite a fashion. People keep looking for purpose now. Complicates everything.
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Nicias, do you think you can erase with good deeds the wrongs you committed against your mother? What good deed will ever reach her? Her soul is a scorching noon time, without a single breath of a breeze, nothing moves, nothing changes, nothing lives there; a great emaciated sun, an immobile sun eternally consumes her.
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The first rule of making progress in anything you do is setting goals, allowing yourself to always have a finish line in sight. This provides a boost in motivation during those moments when slogging forward seems impossible, giving you something tangible to work towards at every moment.
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You think in a different way when you don't have any money. The joy of poverty is that you use your imagination to come up with stuff.
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Chaos is rejecting all you have learned. Chaos is being yourself.
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Those who write the editorials and those who write the columns, they simply are unaccountable. They're free to impose their cultural politics in the name of freedom of the press.
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Democracy is always an unfinished experiment, testing the capacity of each generation to live freedom nobly.
