George Will Quotes
I just got hooked on the radio, the voice of it all. It was my connection to metropolitan America, if you will. Sports, in particularly baseball then 'cause of its rich sediment of numbers, was one of the first things a young person could peg up with adults on - that is, you could know as much about Jimmy Fox as your father did.
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You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.
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I always separated sports and my personal life.
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Life is about timing.
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When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love.
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I guess my thermometer for my baseball fever is still a goose bump.
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A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship - and you know what, a father does, too. It's time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a 'Mad Men' episode.
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Nobody ever worked as hard as my father. My father averaged maybe four hours of sleep at night, and when you're a kid, you don't realize that. The man was tired. He was tired.
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I still relate to my father very much. I mean, I talk to him in a certain way, as we do talk to the dead.
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It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.
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I remember driving the tractor on our farm, and Tim McGraw would be on the radio. I'd find myself walking out of class, singing his songs. And then Tim ended up playing my father in 'Friday Night Lights.' It was surreal.
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I think every school in the world should have a sports program.
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When my father was a young actor, it is absolutely true that the vast majority were fairly middle class. Then all of a sudden, people like Albert Finney burst through and turned all that on its head.
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My father was trained as a saddler, but in fact as a young man worked in his father's business of rearing and selling cattle, so he grew up in the countryside.
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My perception of life is not to ask Francois Hollande, who isn't the father of my children, to support me financially.
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But it don't bother me. I never yet saw anybody hit the baseball with their face. Besides, I like to get kidded; that means they like me. When they stop kidding me, I'm in trouble.
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Dear father, I have received several letters from Mary and yourself, but as I have to deal with nineteen-twentieths of those received, have neglected to answer them.
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When my father died, I was 21, and he'd been sick for a few years. He changed during his illness. He kind of softened during it.
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I sang with my father for over 50 years, and now all of a sudden he's gone, and I just dropped out.
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One works in one's laboratory - one's chaotic laboratory - with students and colleagues, doing what one most wants to do - then all this happens! It is overwhelming.
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From the time I was little, I always felt like an outsider. I always felt nervous and uncomfortable with myself.
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Hattie.' Grace patted my arm. 'My cows sing better than you do.
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Cherish the people who make up your home, and you'll notice the hearth fires burn brighter than ever before.
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At the end of the day, I use music to be able to communicate to people.
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I just got hooked on the radio, the voice of it all. It was my connection to metropolitan America, if you will. Sports, in particularly baseball then 'cause of its rich sediment of numbers, was one of the first things a young person could peg up with adults on - that is, you could know as much about Jimmy Fox as your father did.
