George Will Quotes

Nationalism is blamed for this century's wars, but nationalism need not mean militarism. And the nation-state has been the laboratory of liberty.

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• The stage is the best experience in the world. It's a great compliment to be able to share the music, because people can hear my album but they don't get to make the connection in the same way as when it's one-to-one.

  

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• That's all TV acting is. Like, let me find my mark and seem like I'm still acting. Sometimes they'll put sandbags there, but then it's even funnier because you're walking and you're, like, stepping into sandbags, so now you look like you're having a seizure.

  

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• One who doesn't throw the dice can never expect to score a six.

  

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• For the doubters out there, of course I was going to have help from Penguin's editorial team in telling my story, which I talked about from the beginning.

  

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• Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.

  

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• I like the language in Proust but not the context.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
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• I can get a black eye, a bloody nose. I can have a bad day in the gym. At the end of the day, I don't have a bad payday, and I don't have a bad night under the lights... I get bumps, bruises... but I don't have a bad night.

  

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• In our state, I'm really proud of the fact that the ones who overturned Jim Crow in Kentucky were Republicans fighting against an entirely unified Democrat Party. So I am proud to be Republican. I can't imagine being anything else.

  

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• I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing the other patients.

  

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• Every man harbors an inner female territory ruled by his mother, from whom he can never entirely break free.

  

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• I hope this doesn't sound pompous but I don't think of myself as famous, whatever fame I've got has come through what I've done and associations of things I've done.

  

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• Don't call me a saint. I don't want to be dismissed so easily.

  

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• From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.

  

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• I was kind of torn between playing music or playing college football. I was going to college and really focusing on my music career.

  

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• I've polished up stories for their reprinted appearances. I guess there's always something to be changed or improved, but one could get carried away and work on one story indefinitely. I'm too restless for that, too eager to begin the next one.

  

  Jeffrey Thomas
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• I inhaled books. I loved Classics Illustrated comic books. These were books that I could afford to buy after I turned in pop bottles for change. 'The Prince and the Pauper,' 'Robinson Crusoe,' 'A Journey to the Center of the Earth.' Male narratives filled with adventure and self-discovery.

  

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• I don't like the fact that there are so few Russians in Hollywood, but it is understandable because of the historic relationship between America and Russia - the Cold War history, for example. It is kind of a cliche, but it's still with us.

  

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• We must fight against negativeness - especially bureaucracy, corruption and wastefulness.

  

  Nông Đức Mạnh
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• I wanted to do a show based on what my life would be like if I had never become a comedian.

  

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• Tallulah [Bankhead] never beat about the bush - she'd gossip about you in front of your back!

  

  Patsy Kelly
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• There are other books in a man's library besides Ovid, and after dawdling ever so long at a woman's knee, one day he gets up and is free. We have all been there; we have all had the fever--the strongest and the smallest, from Samson, Hercules, Rinaldo, downward: but it burns out, and you get well.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
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• Nationalism is blamed for this century's wars, but nationalism need not mean militarism. And the nation-state has been the laboratory of liberty.

  

  George Will
  • War
  • Mean
  • Liberty