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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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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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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When a government controls both the economic power of individuals and the coercive power of the state ... This violates a fundamental rule of happy living: Never let the people with all the money and the people with all the guns be the same people.
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I think it's important to cultivate as many people as you can to see which ones you jive with. And it makes you happy. If one dies, you have another one. So living is a process that you have to do by yourself, and if you can learn a few little goodies along the way that might make it easier for you, so much the better.
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Often the oppressor goes along unaware of the evil involved in his oppression so long as the oppressed accepts it.
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If you look at the early nineteenth century you see the idea that we educate children to be voters and to be participants in our popular democracy. And then at the turn of the century when more and more immigrants are coming into the schools, Americanization becomes a more explicit part of the agenda.
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Democracy is always an unfinished experiment, testing the capacity of each generation to live freedom nobly.
