George Will Quotes

Perhaps the soundest advice for parents is: Lighten up. People have been raising children for approximately as long as there have been people.

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• I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Words
  • Government
  • Military

• I've never been a partier.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Never
  • Been

• Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.

  

  Florence King
  • Time
  • World
  • Mind

• I've achieved more than some people do in a lifetime, but it doesn't mean I've done it all.

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • People
  • Done
  • Mean

• When I'm on stage, it's like a different world ... me connecting with the audience. It's a surreal experience.

  

  Manika
  • World
  • Experience
  • Audience

• I don't normally vote. I'm lazy and I never bought into the 'Every vote counts.'

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Never
  • Lazy
  • Vote

• If your budget is in good shape and you are not indebted too much, you can do what the U.S. did at the beginning of the '30s - building railways, etc., but when you don't have that, you must be far more cautious.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Good
  • Beginning
  • Building

• Well, I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I haven't been a rogue most of my life.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Here

• Well, we don't take money from people and then show the product. It has to be a product that we like anyway, and that's true for all five of us, which is one of the really nice things about the way we make the show.

  

  Ted Allen
  • People
  • Money
  • True

• Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • New
  • Fault
  • Globalization

• The Civil Rights Movement, it wasn't just a couple of, you know, superstars like Martin Luther King. It was thousands and thousands - millions, I should say - of people taking risks, becoming leaders in their community.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • People
  • Community
  • Couple

• My doctors warned me repeatedly that if you don't stay positive, you don't do well.

  

  Vince Flynn
  • You
  • Me
  • Positive

• What are the symbols of American strength, wealth, power and modernity? Certainly not jazz and rock and roll, not chewing-gum or hamburgers, Broadway or Hollywood. It's their skyscrapers. Their Pentagon. Their science. Their technology.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Power
  • American
  • Science

• When I am myself, I am happy and have a good result.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Myself

• I had to understand the whole bounty hunting thing, because we don't have that in Venezuela. Nothing similar at all, at least not legal.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Understand
  • Hunting
  • Legal

• Making money is certainly the one addiction I cannot shake.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Money
  • Addiction
  • Shake

• Es ist niemals ein Dokument der Kultur, ohne zugleich ein solches der Barbarei zu sein.

  

  Walter Benjamin

• They were like 'AA this' and I was like 'Bye bye that'

  

  Charlie Sheen

• So, to come In with a set routine it's something I've never believed in. It should depend on how you feel, because you play what you feel.

  

  Buddy Rich

• Now, we believe that the majority of teachers in America know our system must be reformed, to put students first so that America can compete, that teachers don't teach to become rich or famous. They teach because they love children.

  

  Chris Christie
  • Believe
  • Children
  • America

• My parents demonstrated against the Vietnam war, they were into the civil rights movement, the feminist movement, they started the first vegetarian restaurant in Pittsburgh.

  

  Justin Cathal Geever Anti-Flag
  • War
  • Parent
  • Feminist

• I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets.

  

  Barbara Broccoli
  • Today
  • Reality
  • Everybody

• I go to a lot of rap shows and sometimes take what they do from a performer's aspect, how they interact with the crowd. I always have a DJ with me on the road, as well as some dancers.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Aspect
  • Crowd
  • Performer

• Perhaps the soundest advice for parents is: Lighten up. People have been raising children for approximately as long as there have been people.

  

  George Will
  • Children
  • Advice
  • Parent