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.
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I've never been a partier.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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I've achieved more than some people do in a lifetime, but it doesn't mean I've done it all.
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When I'm on stage, it's like a different world ... me connecting with the audience. It's a surreal experience.
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I don't normally vote. I'm lazy and I never bought into the 'Every vote counts.'
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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.
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Well, I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I haven't been a rogue most of my life.
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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.
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Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.
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I got to play with Nintendo's Wii, yes it's a funny name and not very revolutionary but it was fun whipping your arms around.
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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.
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My doctors warned me repeatedly that if you don't stay positive, you don't do well.
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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.
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When I am myself, I am happy and have a good result.
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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.
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Making money is certainly the one addiction I cannot shake.
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Es ist niemals ein Dokument der Kultur, ohne zugleich ein solches der Barbarei zu sein.
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Universities are not places where police can come and arrest people. Let the children have a discourse as they want to. They will learn as they move on in life. But to target individuals and institutions is dangerous.
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No vice is so bad as advice.
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Many upscale American parents somehow think jobs like their own are part of the nation's natural order. They are not. In Europe, they have already discovered that, and many there have accepted the new small-growth, small-jobs reality. Will we?
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Fred Astaire told me things I will never forget. Gene Kelly also said he liked my dancing. It was a fantastic experience because I felt I had been inducted into an informal fraternity of dancers, and I felt so honored because these were the people I most admired in the world.
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Every dog, we are told, has his day, unless there are more dogs than days.
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Perhaps the soundest advice for parents is: Lighten up. People have been raising children for approximately as long as there have been people.
