George Will Quotes
Concerning [postmodern] ideas, let us not mince words. The ideas are profoundly dangerous. They subvert our civilization by denying that truth is found by conscientious attempts accurately to portray a reality that exists independently of our perception or attitudes or other attributes such as race, ethnicity, sex or class.
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My mom says that when I was a little kid, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I don't remember that.
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There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
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A lot of people will call me nuts or crazy, but I've always been pretty stable. By some people's standards, I might be crazy. But I realize that I'm not going to harm anyone, and the only place that I live is within my own universe, really - so it's O.K.
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After I win a match, I celebrate it by having an ice cream.
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There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.
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That's actually how my parents met. They were pen pals. My mom was in the Philippines and my father was in the States, and they wrote to each other. He went out to meet her, and they wed not too long after.
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I've got two small kids. I want to make sure they grow up to be good people. Do they treat people well? Are they kind?
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I like politics. I like traveling in the United States.
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New York is such a diverse place in and of itself, it would be ridiculous to see it otherwise.
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Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.
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Win or lose today I am proud of the way my boys have played in the tournament.
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It's hard for me to judge my own films as an artist sometimes. But as an artist, I did feel a fulfillment working on them, you know?
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I really think that there was a great advantage in many ways to being a woman. I think we are a lot better at personal relationships, and then have the capability obviously of telling it like it is when it's necessary.
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It's not really that I'm interested in filmmaking. I'm interested in the instrument of it, you know.
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The number of parts that were required were just prohibitive.
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Some people say a front-engine car handles best. Some people say a rear-engine car handles best. I say a rented car handles best.
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But whether there's some grand design really matters little to me. My only hope was this: to see what might be, to believe that it should be, and then to do all I could to bring it to pass, whatever the cost.
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I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, 'What happened next?'
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And now German generals find it hard to explain away their retreat.
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Rarely has reality needed so much to be imagined.
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And the desire to own property, to take for ourselves things which in no way belong to us, does not stop short at the sun. The air is already bought and sold as a commodity, by health resorts. And what of water? Or waterpower? Why should the earth be parceled out into private hands? Is it any different from the sun? No; the earth belongs to the people who live on it. God intended it for them, but it has been taken over by private individuals. Privare means to steal. Thus private property is stolen property - property stolen from God and from humankind!
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I am grateful that the people of Telangana supported me when I spoke in the Andhra accent, just as much as the people of Andhra embraced my Telangana dialect.
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Concerning [postmodern] ideas, let us not mince words. The ideas are profoundly dangerous. They subvert our civilization by denying that truth is found by conscientious attempts accurately to portray a reality that exists independently of our perception or attitudes or other attributes such as race, ethnicity, sex or class.
