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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After I win a match, I celebrate it by having an ice cream.
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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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I call this The Dictator Syndrome. You see suffering or danger, and in your imagination you see a government program eliminating it. But in the real world the program would operate as you expect only if you were an absolute dictator-having at your disposal all the government's power to compel everyone to do things your way.
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If He who in Himself can lack nothing chooses to need us, it is because we need to be needed.
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When you don't cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your life.
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My kids are obviously growing up very privileged, but I want them to have a servant's heart. We do community service as a family, and I also call them out on things like getting impatient when they stand in line - because they hardly ever have to. But that's just the reality of what they were born into.
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I don't come down on any simple place as a deletionist or a completionist.
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It's all right to pull the cow out of the mud on Sunday, provided that you don't push him in on Saturday night.
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La gente dice que el coyote es un brujo. Muchas veces el brujo es un coyote.
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Scientists and philosophers tend to treat knowledge, imagination and love as if they were all very separate parts of human nature. But when it comes to children, all three are deeply entwined. Children learn the truth by imagining all the ways the world could be, and testing those possibilities.
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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.
