George Will Quotes
Once when the Yankee's Lou Pinella was batting he questioned a Palermo strike call. Pinella demanded, "Where was that pitch at?" Palermo told him that a man wearing Yankee pinstripes in front of 30,000 people should not end a sentence with a preposition. So Pinella, no dummy, said, "OK, where was that pitch at, asshole?"
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The future is much like the present, only longer.
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Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.
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A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
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I don't know the right way to retire.
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The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
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The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
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I just sing. You have to use it.
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No one wants to drown. Drowning would be the worst. Cause everyone knows that feeling. That feeling, oh it's the worst... when you think you're drowning.
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Action expresses priorities.
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The 90's are the 60's standing on their head.
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The human mind inherently seeks intelligible order. Thus the conviction that such an order exists to be found is a crucial assumption.
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My father used to take me to the movies on Saturdays. In 1940, when I was four years old, we encountered 'Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe.' I loved it. Especially the rocket ship, which I later realized had no airlock and no washroom. But they managed to get to Mongo with it.
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We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.
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An entertainer should in his public performance keep himself out of any controversy, political or otherwise.
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I never did steroids in my life. I know all the fighters; they are all on steroids.
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If you're looking for someone to go to Washington, to go along to get along, to get - to agree with the career politicians in both parties who get in bed with the lobbyists and special interests, then I ain't your guy.
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I've still got a small fitness and conditioning business where I travel round the world doing stuff for individuals and corporations, mainly fitness training.
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The whole New Deal was in a sense just a series of public options, some more optional than others, that offered government as an alternative to the often-flawed private market.
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I was sitting in a chair in the patent office at Bern when all of sudden a thought occurred to me: If a person falls freely he will not feel his own weight. I was startled. This simple thought made a deep impression on me. It impelled me toward a theory of gravitation.
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To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.
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I'll work thirteen hours at a time producing a new track. Not a lot of people understand that - not girlfriends, friends, family.
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Once when the Yankee's Lou Pinella was batting he questioned a Palermo strike call. Pinella demanded, "Where was that pitch at?" Palermo told him that a man wearing Yankee pinstripes in front of 30,000 people should not end a sentence with a preposition. So Pinella, no dummy, said, "OK, where was that pitch at, asshole?"
