George Will Quotes

Voters cannot hold officials responsible if they do not know what government is doing, or which parts of government are doing what.

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• When Occupy Wall Street happened, I took my money out of Citibank. I already had problems with all the banks - Citibank, Bank of America - but I was kind of just too lazy to take my money out until I saw how Citibank responded to Occupy Wall Street.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Money
  • America
  • Wall

• 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.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Up
  • Perfect
  • Morning

• I play guitar and sing when I'm not busy with school and acting.

  

  Kaitlyn Dever
  • School
  • Acting
  • Busy

• You'd believe that a patient with hypertension, if you know you have hypertension or diabetes, you would take your drug every day. The compliance rate is more like 30% or 40%. Which means that 60% of patients don't take their drugs, and they actually go into these crises, end up in the hospital.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Day

• For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.

  

  Pam Brown
  • Nature
  • Spring
  • Will

• I am filled with uncertainty and fear when thinking about how my two daughters will grow into this world as Hoosiers, as Americans, as women and free thinkers.

  

  Nate Powell
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Women

• Work is so much fun that it doesn't really seem like downtime when I'm not. But cooking, spending time with my family, friends and dog are what I'm usually doing when I'm not working on something.

  

  Bailee Madison
  • Time
  • Work
  • Family

• In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Running
  • Air
  • Service

• Money is power. Power is an aphrodisiac.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Money
  • Power
  • Aphrodisiac

• I didn't want to do movies with hundreds of camels crossing the desert followed by tanks and this and that.

  

  Garry Marshall
  • Want
  • Movies
  • Desert

• Writing is hard work and bad for the health.

  

  E. B. White
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Bad

• I think that if writers are tempted to do other things, they ought to go do other things. They should not write if they don't feel like it. I say this as a competitor. I am not interested in encouraging people who are in competition with me.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Competition
  • Writers
  • Encouraging

• To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Need
  • Paper
  • Pen

• Creativity can only be anarchic, capitalist, Darwinian.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Creativity
  • Only
  • Capitalist

• I think, by nature you know, I'm very attracted and I gravitate toward the very strong girl who can watch a ballgame, but who's also extremely feminine.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Nature
  • Girl
  • Strong

• As I understand, the role of the federal judiciary, the role of our court system, is to provide justice.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Justice
  • Understand
  • Provide

• I had already played a lead on Broadway before I ever did a film. I had had three, four seasons of stock with good, fat parts, good supporting and leading parts. And I had done, oh, God, over 400 live TV shows.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Good
  • God
  • Live

• I really admire paintings that look like an actual snapshot - I think that's just extraordinary.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • Think
  • Look
  • Admire

• I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• Big-government proponents embrace both the power of the federal government and the idea that millions of Americans ought to be dependent on its largesse. It's time to return to our Founders' love for small government. More is not always better.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Time
  • Government
  • Better

• We're headed towards a fascist economy in which you have big government, big corporations and big labor, and they're all in cahoots to strangle the entrepreneur.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Government
  • Entrepreneur

• My childhood was kind of complicated. I have an older sister, but my father, my mother's husband, died when I was four years old. So I only had my mum and sister, really.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Childhood

• The deep of night is crept upon our talk, And Nature must obey necessity.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Nature
  • Night
  • Sleep

• Voters cannot hold officials responsible if they do not know what government is doing, or which parts of government are doing what.

  

  George Will
  • Government
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  • Voters