George Will Quotes
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I get up, go and get a coffee, and go do the crossword - I'm loyal to one particular paper, the 'Guardian' - and that's my idea of a perfect morning.
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I put it to you that there are no British poets, there are no British novelists. I have heard myself described as one, but I think really I'm an English novelist; there are Scottish poets and Scottish novelists.
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Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
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It's easy for me to care about Toronto, because Toronto is a community that cares about itself. It represents the world. It talks to itself, and because it does, it figures out that there must be a music garden as part of its existence.
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In a competitive industry, only paranoid incumbents - those constantly striving for betterment - have any hope of surviving.
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Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.
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People that don't know me get 'Mossed'. It means, I was gonna go home, but then I just got led astray. In the best possible way, of course. I mean, it's always fun, and a good time.
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Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
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All of his saves have come in relief appearances.
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You can't work in a steel mill and think small. Giant converters hundreds of feet high. Every night, the sky looked enormous. It was a torrent of flames - of fire. The place that Pittsburgh used to be had such scale.
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I can never sit still. I wanna hurl myself into life.
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I'm more interested in characters who are a little difficult.
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I think it's very dangerous for people who do anything that's public to venture on the Web and check out what people are saying about them. Yes, you're bound to find things that will delight you - but you also find things that will make you brood and feel bad about yourself. Why would you intentionally invite that into your life?
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I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.
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That's why, when Alias came along, I knew I'd be OK if the show was on for five or six years because the writing was so good and the creative team was so strong.
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I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer.
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Our focus on discrimination against women during the past 30 years has blinded us to opportunities for women.
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I did the voice of Cyclops on 'Shrek the Third'. I don't know how I got that. They said they wanted a Michael Chiklis type, and apparently it came down to me and Michael Chiklis, so how they gave it to me, I don't know.
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Sheik Hilaly is making a good contribution. He is making a good contribution.
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It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.
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If we get away from the lazy and fuzzy thinking that is like a poison in our society - if we get away from all the bad television that we tend to watch - and begin to take up serious meditation and other sacred exercises, we will have a real revolution of consciousness. If that happens, the world will change by itself.
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You just couldn't be in George Romney's presence without some of his goodness and integrity wearing off on you.
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I never intended to be a politician or office-seeker.
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Hyperbole expands in societies where articulateness atrophies.
