George Will Quotes

Creative semantics is the key to contemporary government; it consists of talking in strange tongues lest the public learn the inevitable inconveniently early.

George Will

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• Any creative process comes with a level of self-analysis and self-criticism. There's a lot of waking up in the middle of the night going, 'Oh, I wish I had done that differently.'

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Up
  • Done
  • Night

• The world is cynical and sarcastic, but that doesn't mean that that's always the truth.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • World
  • Truth
  • Sarcastic

• You can always think that we're old and not innovative, but there is no company that can limp on for 139 years without being creative and having the genes to change.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Change
  • Creative
  • Company

• Well, my type is obviously creative. Creative, with burning eyes and a pretty mouth.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Pretty
  • Eyes
  • Creative

• I do love doing films; I love going out and creating different characters for each film, and not having to be stuck with one role for many, many years. It's a creative liberty that I love.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Different
  • Love
  • Creative

• One of the most important reasons for living is to do something - live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete... Awaken your creative sensitivities!

  

  Jack Palance
  • Important
  • Live
  • Together

• My parents always supported me and complimented me on other things, not just my looks. They told me I was capable, that I was smart, that I was creative.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Parents
  • Smart
  • Creative

• A lot of my creative energy is spent coming up with a concept that, once I get it, I feel like it writes itself.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Up
  • Energy
  • Feel

• I was going to try to get into the creative writing program at Berkeley; it's just that the acting thing worked out.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Writing
  • Acting
  • Creative

• Now along comes the potential creative destruction brought by a different distribution methodology, the Internet.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Different
  • Creative
  • Now

• If I see something new, I'd be like, 'Ooh, I want to do that.' The hunger to learn and do better never goes. Your mind is always working. You want to do so many creative things.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Mind
  • Creative
  • Hunger

• I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Happy
  • Think
  • Stop

• I got into therapy in the fifth grade because I said in a sarcastic way that I was going to kill myself, and they didn't get it then. Nothing's changed.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Myself
  • Said
  • Sarcastic

• Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Argument
  • Irony
  • Sarcasm

• But the business side of it, as with most creative things, there is no room for business. It is about art. It's not about marketing.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Art
  • Business
  • Creative

• The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Science
  • Creative
  • Will

• I do believe that there are creative chakras or different sorts of energy centers.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Energy

• Music is where I have the most creative freedom, but I love producing. To me, that's kind of where all the action is. You get a chance to have your hands in every aspect of a film. From picking a director, sometimes picking a writer, to the actors, the wardrobe, set design, editing, music, and marketing.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Music
  • Freedom
  • Chance

• People with dark souls have nothing but dark dreams. People with really dark souls do nothing but dream.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Dreams
  • Souls

• As an athlete, you have to have that feeling that you can beat the odds, come back sooner than expected. Otherwise, the guys who are like, 'What's going to happen?', those guys it takes three months longer. It's better to have the reverse attitude.

  

  Gabe Kapler
  • Feeling
  • Athlete
  • Beat

• The Rationalist case needs no straining of evidence and always gains by the severest self-criticism.

  

  Joseph McCabe
  • Criticism
  • Evidence
  • Rationalist

• There's a Nina Simone record that I love, 'Live at Vine Street,' and she sings flat on it. I can imagine she might've told the record label, 'Oh, God, you're not releasing that!' But I'm glad they did.

  

  Damien Rice
  • God
  • Live
  • Love

• I saw Ben Stiller's movie Walter Mitty 2013; it's very beautiful. You look at some of the movies John Ford did with John Wayne and Jimmy Stewart, and then look at Remington and Ansel Adams, and I think you see a connection, certainly in the imagery of the West.

  

  Owen Wilson
  • Movie
  • Connection
  • Imagery

• Creative semantics is the key to contemporary government; it consists of talking in strange tongues lest the public learn the inevitable inconveniently early.

  

  George Will
  • Creative
  • Sarcastic
  • Sarcasm