George Will Quotes
Pessimism is as American as apple pie - frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese.
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Americans think Soviets are so grim. I want them to see that they can smile.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.
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You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.
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Sri Lanka is an island off the coast of India. There's two ethnicities there; one the Sinhalese, which is the majority and the government, and the minority, who are the Tamils. That's where I'm from. And my lifetime sort of began there; I spent 10 years, and I was there during when the war started and fled as a refugee to England.
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You always have to be worried about something that is considered a so-called 'scientific theory' that fits every scenario. Climate change, as they've defined it, can never be disproved.
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I like the fact that glass ceilings are breaking all over.
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'Mr Selfridge' is a lot more accessible than shows like 'Downton.' Everyone knows the store, but not everyone knows the story. Having this store as the backdrop with all of society working under one roof, I think it really captures people's imaginations.
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As a writer, I've always been somebody who's been productive and hustled hard.
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I'm sure people in the business have said: She's too old for that part. I don't hear about it because your agent protects you from those negative things.
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I think that there are always goals for me to try to achieve, and I'm going to work toward those goals.
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Silicon Valley is constantly saying that the government is irrelevant and powerless. But that's because most people there have never seen it get serious.
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I don't carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.
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I'll run your brain around the block to jog your fucking memory.
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When I post, I forget I’m famous. It’s a really bad thing.
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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.
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When I was a little kid I wanted to be an artist or a painter. But once I got into boxing, all I wanted was to box.
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Conditions are ripe for triumph. We will win. And we will wield great power here.
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For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than any have ever known. Only ten years ago the 'more with less' technology reached the point where this could be done. All humanity now has the option to become enduringly successful.
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He becomes an appendage of the machine, and it is only the most simple, most monotonous, and most easily acquired knack, that is required of him. Hence, the cost of production of a workman is restricted, almost entirely, to the means of subsistence that he requires for his maintenance, and for the propagation of his race.
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Writing freezes speech and in so doing gives birth to the grammarian, the logician, the rhetorician, the historian, the scientist - all those who must hold language before them so that they can see what it means, where it errs, and where it is leading.
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You are discontented with the world because you can't get just the small things that suit your pleasure, not because it's a world where myriads of men and women are ground by wrong and misery, and tainted with pollution.
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Pessimism is as American as apple pie - frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese.
