George Will Quotes

The strongest continuous thread in America's political tradition is skepticism about government.

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• I said it several times: a blow you are getting from a friend is still a blow, but more painful.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • You
  • Friend
  • Said

• I'm the blackest villain of all time.

  

  Ian McDiarmid
  • Time
  • Villain
  • Blackest

• My life has changed in many ways, both on an economic and personal level. All major league players are accorded the respect they deserve. In Cuba, it was not that way. National team players were not respected. The treatment was not adequate.

  

  Yoenis Cespedes
  • Life
  • Team
  • Respect

• I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Home
  • Emotional
  • Dreams

• If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Work
  • Real
  • Want

• Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • News

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

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Need
  • Paper
  • Pen

• 'Evita' was four pieces of slick paper and a record album. It's the most scary, to sit down and dictate a musical scene by scene. It was a musical unlike anything I'd ever seen before myself.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Myself
  • Scary
  • Down

• Wer immer strebend sich bemüht,Den können wir erlösen.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• I'm conscious of the fact that I'm sort of a bridging figure. I have my Chinese literary heritage and cultural background, so I'm comfortable with these things, but at the same time, I have to navigate the Anglo-American tradition, which has a self-centred view of what Asia and what being Chinese means.

  

  Ken Liu
  • Time
  • American
  • Chinese

• I did 'Malice,' 'Sommersby,' and 'Sleepless in Seattle,' and they're as disparate characters as I've ever played. But somehow, there was that thing - they were all second male leads, so they all didn't get the girl in some weird way.

  

  Bill Pullman
  • Girl
  • Weird

• Up until the final decade of the nineteenth century, the United States and the United Kingdom did not recognize copyright in each other's creative works.

  

  Matthew Pearl
  • Up

• I think everyone is making a lot of money, whether it is the actors, the producers, or the TV channels.

  

  Barun Sobti
  • Money

• When I was pregnant with my daughter Vivianne, I gained 55 lbs. I was so swollen. I craved anything that would make any woman gain a ton of weight, and I was sick for five months straight.

  

  Jessie James Decker
  • Daughter
  • Sick

• I was fascinated by what motivates men and women to fight for what they believe in.

  

  Matthew Heineman
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Women

• In a funny way, when things went wrong in my life - and it is my fault that they went wrong, it is not anyone else's fault - and all the glittering outside things were taken away, I was left with the things of most value.

  

  Kimberly Quinn
  • Life
  • Funny
  • Taken

• I don't just want to sing about simplistic things all the time. It's good to have a mix of songs that have a real depth, and that provoke and challenge people, and then songs that are fun and people can enjoy.

  

  Marina and the Diamonds
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• I really believe that, as human beings, we have an innate need to explore, to see what's around the corner.

  

  Jimmy Chin
  • Believe
  • Explore

• I hear so many startups talking about how they can raise VC instead of questioning whether they need it in the first place.

  

  Jon Oringer

• And would it have been worth it, after all, Would it have been worth while, After the sunsets and the dooryards and the sprinkled streets, After the novels, after the teacups, after the skirts that trail along the floor - And this, and so much more? -

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Sunset
  • Trails
  • Skirts

• We have to remain vigilant and loud and stay consistently engaged with our representatives and the political process every single day, on both a macro and micro level.

  

  Billy Eichner
  • Political
  • Single

• We refugees, we become always a punchbag. A political punchbag between China and South Korea and North Korea.

  

  Lee Hyeon-seo
  • Political

• I'm not great on television. That's one reason I don't do it very often.

  

  Alex Pareene
  • Great

• The strongest continuous thread in America's political tradition is skepticism about government.

  

  George Will
  • Political
  • Tradition
  • Skepticism