George Will Quotes
The almost erotic pleasure of spending money that others have earned and saved is one reason people put up with the tiresome aspects of political life.
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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
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Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?
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I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.
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Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it.
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To get into Afghanistan, I bribed my way into a camel caravan of smugglers.
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What's so brave about being bald? I've not fought for my country or found the cure for cancer - I've just gone out without my hat on!
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R. Kelly is an image, a brand. That's my job. There's a whole other side of me that's Robert, who is a father, a friend. But then I put on the game face and go into the studio and do the music. That's just another day at the office.
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O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself.
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There are over 7,000 different types of proteins in typical eukaryotic cells; the total number depends on the cell class and function.
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I am absolutely stunned how the Democrats were able to somehow say that the Republicans had a war on women... What was the war on women?
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I think the most important thing for me in a relationship is honesty.
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I think sometimes I should do more carousing, because I don't do much and maybe it would be fun occasionally. It's hard for me to have fun and I'm a serious thinker and a searcher and funny from the front.
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The venerable emeritus professors still at Yale when I entered graduate school in the 1960s may have been reserved, puritanical WASPs, but they were men of honor who had given their lives to scholarship. Today in the elite schools, honor and ethics are gone.
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The fact is, we need markers in life, whether we subscribe to a religion or not. And the major holidays, such as Christmas, serve to remind us of the turning world.
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Few artists can afford artistic temperament.
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When things begin accelerating wildly out of control, sometimes patience is the only answer. Press pause.
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I get my jolt of energy in New York. I get mi familia vibe in New York.
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I have stage fright every single concert I've ever done. I have at least four or five minutes of it. It's absolute living hell.
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There was a time, actually, when I hadn't been singing, and I'd lost a lot of my ability. My range had shrunk.
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My husband and I have season tickets to the Giants games, and we go there as fans to enjoy it.
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If somebody had told me in the 1980s that Gerry Adams would shake hands with Ian Paisley or Peter Robinson I would have said put that man in a white suit and lock him up in a padded cell.
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A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been lying fallow, and this love of humanity vented itself in a vast compassion.
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The almost erotic pleasure of spending money that others have earned and saved is one reason people put up with the tiresome aspects of political life.
