George Will Quotes

The future is usually just like the past- right up to the moment when it isn't.

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• Human technology has made it to Mars. We are transmitting gorgeous pictures from it. Yet we have not explored our own planet. Two-thirds of it is covered with oceans that are still mysterious places.

  

  Barbara Block
  • Technology
  • Mysterious
  • Own

• I think George Bush is the most dangerous man in the world.

  

  Ted Turner
  • World
  • Think
  • Man

• I was 12 years old when I had my first job, delivering packages.

  

  Damon Wayans
  • Job
  • First
  • Old

• It's easy to make a film, but it's hard to make a career of being a filmmaker.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Career
  • Film
  • Easy

• I don't think that women need to smell interesting.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Women
  • Think
  • Interesting

• Through this experience we have been warned - learn everything, don't forget anything!

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • Experience
  • Learn
  • Forget

• I think I'm an okay parent, but I'd put myself in the category of a musician-who-happened-to-become-a-father. I'm definitely not a father-who-happened-to-be-a-musician.

  

  Jack Bruce Cream
  • Father
  • Think
  • Myself

• In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Long
  • Women
  • Apple

• The important thing is to build up my cardiovascular system, so I have the stamina to do stunts. To me, stepping over the line, taking a chance and succeeding is the ultimate freedom, be it in rock and roll or when executing a really challenging routine.

  

  Wendy O. Williams
  • Up
  • Important
  • Freedom

• Certainly there is, for the American Negro artist who can escape the restrictions the more advanced among his own group would put upon him, a great field of unused material ready for his art.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Great
  • Art
  • American

• People have tried to corner the market on being offended, corner the market on language and corner the market on opinion. Should I lose my job 'cause I offended somebody? No, of course not. Your life should never be affected by public opinion.

  

  Patrice O'Neal
  • People
  • Life
  • Job

• My dad wouldn't let me date until I was 16.

  

  Zendaya
  • Me
  • Dad
  • Date

• I was working in Camden Lock market from the age of 13 to 16, and people often suggested that I should be a model. I knew a girl working on a stall who was with Take Two model agency, so I decided to go along, and they took me on.

  

  Saffron Aldridge
  • People
  • Age
  • Girl

• You can't always measure the effects of activist work; you just have to wish and pray that the message gets through.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Work
  • Wish
  • Always

• Easy reading is damn hard writing.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Writing
  • Reading
  • Easy

• A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Man
  • Reading
  • Wife

• By promoting justice and thus the interests of the international community as a whole, a state will be able to make its influence over others sustainable and achieve its own national interest.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Community
  • Justice

• I do think that the modern India does belong to writers who are living in India.

  

  Kiran Desai

• The happiest moments of my childhood were when my toys broke, because then I could destroy them with impunity.

  

  Andrew Stanton
  • Moments
  • Childhood

• Hats are attached to special moments in people's lives - weddings, or the races. In difficult times, people still get married; they still want to look their best.

  

  Philip Treacy
  • People
  • Moments

• His hands are holding my cheeks, and he pulls back just to look me in the eye and his chest is heaving and he says, "I think," he says, "my heart is going to explode," and I wish, more than ever, that I knew how to capture moments like these and revisit them forever. Because this. This is everything.

  

  Tahereh Mafi
  • God
  • Heart
  • Wish

• I don't think that there's necessarily a side to drama that has to be completely bleak. You have to have a flicker of humor 'cause everyone has a flicker of humor, something they find funny in life.

  

  Amy Seimetz
  • Life
  • Funny
  • Drama

• The future is usually just like the past- right up to the moment when it isn't.

  

  George Will
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