George Will Quotes
Most presidents come to Washington bright as freshly minted dimes and leave much diminished.
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No 17-year-old is just one thing, especially in this day and age. Kids are into all sorts of things.
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If you're the person living closest to the parent who's going to need help, and you take on the whole role of primary caregiver, you can be pretty sure your sibling who lives farthest away is going to call you and say, 'You don't know what you're doing.' Because they're not on the spot, and they probably feel guilty.
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I don't think about my fame very much.
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Like most people, there are things I love about Amazon. It's cheap, it's fast, and it's at my doorstep. But Amazon will never replace the important role my local indie plays in my community.
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The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
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Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen.
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We want to be able to sell you anything, anywhere, any time you want it.
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I'm not sought after. I never get enough work. It's the history of my career. There just isn't anything to turn down, let me put it that way.
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I started mountain-bike riding two years ago, which is much better than riding a stationary bike in the gym. Mountain biking is a total body workout.
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A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.
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Do you know the only value life has is what life puts on itself?
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
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I was a bit of a rebel.
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Justice is one of the core elements towards reconciliation and sustainable peace.
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In many ways, not fitting in has been a comedic asset and a comedic resource.
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Le désir s'accroît quand l'effet se recule.
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My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.
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There is as far as I know, no example in history, of any state voluntarily ceding power from the centre to its constituent parts.
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I really believe my greatest service is in the many unwise steps I prevent.
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We look at our fellow men too much from the standpoint of our own prejudices. They may be wrong, they may have their faults and foibles, they may call out all the meanest and most hateful in us. But they are not all wrong; they have their virtues, and when they excite our bad passions by their own, they may be as ashamed and sorry as we are irritated. And I think some of the best, most contrite, most useful of men and women, whose prayers prevail with God and bring down blessings into the homes in which they dwell, often possess unlovely traits that furnish them with their best discipline. The very fact that they are ashamed of themselves drives them to God; they feel safe in His presence. And while they lie in the very dust of self-confusion as His feet, they are dear to Him and have power with Him.
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Sometimes heaven was feeling nothing. Maybe being drunk was a little like dying and going to heaven. Like living in the light. He kept thinking of Ileana. She was eight now.
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Most presidents come to Washington bright as freshly minted dimes and leave much diminished.
