George Will Quotes
I suppose there's a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And it's the lost world of Thomas Jefferson. It is the lost sense of innocence that we could live with a very minimal state, with a vast sense of space in which to work out freedom.
Quotes to Explore
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I was born in the city's general hospital on November 15, 1930, and we lived at 31 Amherst Avenue in the western suburbs. It was a magical place. There were receptions at the French Club, race meetings at the Shanghai Racecourse, and various patriotic gatherings at the British Embassy on the Bund, the city's glamorous waterfront area.
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To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.
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When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
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I'm sure I frustrate the trainers - in fact, I know I frustrate the trainers to no end. But I think there's a very fine line. I listen to their advice. I take their medical expertise very seriously. But then I also, the reason I am where I am, the reason I play the way I play, is because I push beyond normal.
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There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.
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When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.
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Focus on remedies, not faults.
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To be able to take my pictures, I have to look, all the time, at the people and places I care about.
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You can instantly spot a Chanel woman, so I want to develop the Dior woman.
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I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.
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They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.
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Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.
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I am not afraid of taking risks. We have to take risks for peace.
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You know I'm proud that I was able to develop and produce movies that I wanted to make.
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Big Internet companies on average are capable of generating revenue of $1 million per employee, and that compares to 10 to 20 percent of that which is normally generated by traditional offline businesses of comparable size.
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''A woman's wisdom is her gift to women,'' Peggy quoted. ''Her beauty is her gift to men. Her love is her gift to God.''
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As parents, we teach our kids about things we feel competent in. That's why so many parents don't teach their kids about money.
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The minute I sit down and think 'Okay, this must be KID SAFE!' my Muse develops Tourrette's and goes to lunch with Clive Barker, and my mind plunges into the gutter and I draw an appalling blank on anything that is not violent, gory, profanity laden, or depraved. So I think the only way I can ever do kid's books if I plan not to do kid's books. If that makes any sense.
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I play guitar and sing when I'm not busy with school and acting.
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I'm nervous about the prospects of an America that refuses to abide by its best conscience and its best lights and its best angels.
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I suppose there's a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And it's the lost world of Thomas Jefferson. It is the lost sense of innocence that we could live with a very minimal state, with a vast sense of space in which to work out freedom.
