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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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.
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Cooking is one of the strongest ceremonies for life. When recipes are put together, the kitchen is a chemical laboratory involving air, fire, water and the earth. This is what gives value to humans and elevates their spiritual qualities. If you take a frozen box and stick it in the microwave, you become connected to the factory.
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An ice-fishing shanty is basically a tin outhouse on a frozen lake, except that in an outhouse, the hole has a purpose. In ice fishing, the hole is what you stare at for hours, hoping that at some point you'll break the monotony by falling in.
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To face death, that's nothing much. But to feel really stupid when you die, well, that would be insufferable.
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My rule is: the second you find yourself doing something you hate, quit doing it.
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Pessimism is as American as apple pie - frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese.
