George Will Quotes

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• I want to get into movies, not just TV series.

  

  LaToya London
  • Want
  • Movies
  • Just

• I think people respect honesty rather than hiding it.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • People
  • Respect
  • Honesty

• The fact is that nothing in gerontology even comes close to fulfilling the promise of dramatically extended lifespan, in spite of bold claims to the contrary that by now should sound familiar.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Promise
  • Sound
  • Now

• Anything that I can do with my voice that's good, I'll try to do.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Good
  • Voice
  • Try

• When I eat better, I perform better.

  

  Kathryn McCormick

• There's something about his eyes in the photo. A kind of mystery. His personality comes through. It's always hung on my walls and I've given it to many people as a present. (On his iconic photo of Che Guevara)

  

  Alberto Korda
  • People
  • Eyes
  • Present

• I remember that one time Carl Sagan was giving a talk, and he spelled out, in a kind of withering succession, these great theories of demotion that science has dealt us, all of the ways in which science is telling us we are not who we would like to believe we are. At the end of it, a young man came up to him and he said: "What do you give us in return? Now that you've taken everything from us? What meaning is left, if everything that I've been taught since I was a child turns out to be untrue?" Carl looked at him and said, Do something meaningful.

  

  Ann Druyan
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• When shall I be dead and rid Of all the wrong my father did? How long, how long 'till spade and hearse Put to sleep my mother's curse?

  

  T. H. White
  • Long
  • Mother
  • Father

• I feel good about how we're trying to get better defensively.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Defensively

• Personally I just want to win a championship.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Win
  • Championship

• It's an honor. It's tough enough just to make an All-Star team, but when you're able to be a starter, it just says a lot about being pretty much one of the faces of the NBA because the fans pick you.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Pretty
  • Team
  • Star

• I can't picture myself being the people I always looked up to.

  

  Lindsey Vonn
  • People
  • Up
  • Always

• After a long time spent learning how to write as a woman instead of as an honorary man, I was able to come back to Earthsea and write the next three books in another and newer tradition: that of questioning, rather than accepting, the gendering of power as male.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Time
  • Men
  • Long

• If you only think about yourself - how much money can I make, what can I buy, how nice is my house, what kind of fancy car do I have? - over the long term, I think, you get bored. I think your life becomes diminished. The way to live a full life is to think: What can I do for others?

  

  Barack Obama
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Long

• If you want to dig a big hole, you need to stay in one place.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Place
  • Stay
  • Hole

• When I played the Sahara Hotel in Las Vegas on New Year's Eve, I got to bring Wiley, my 85-pound black lab. He's responsible for my favorite New Year's memory of all: At the end of the show, he ran onstage and then out across all the tables in the showroom, sending champagne glasses and gamblers flying.

  

  Elayne Boosler
  • Black
  • Memory
  • Flying

• You evil thing, why do you haunt me?

  

  John Fogerty Creedence Clearwater Revival
  • Evil
  • Haunt

• If, because of anxiety and self-doubt, you procrastinate and only think about working, you'll feel more exhausted than if you'd created for hours.

  

  Eric Maisel
  • Working
  • Created
  • Self-Doubt

• Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.

  

  George Will
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