George Will Quotes

Obama, startled that components of government behave as interest groups, seems utterly unfamiliar with public choice theory. It demystifies and de-romanticizes politics by applying economic analysis - how incentives influence behavior - to government.

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• You don't need a machine to make pasta: a rolling pin and a fast hand can create a smooth, if thick, sheet.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • You
  • Hand
  • Fast

• Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition.

  

  Jack Welch
  • King
  • Competition
  • Communication

• People think that Israelis are mean, evil people who only want to hurt Arabs all day.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • People
  • Day
  • Evil

• To you, W. B. Yeats, good praiser, wholesome dispraiser, heavy-handed judge, open-handed helper of us all, I offer a play of my plays for every night of the week, because you like them, and because you have taught me my trade.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Good
  • Night
  • Judge

• I was quite a successful evangelist. I've had people write to me and say, 'Gee, I'm a Christian because of you and I hear you're not a Christian, that's shocking to me.' I don't take these things lightly, but that's who I am. I can't change it.

  

  Daniel Everett
  • Change
  • Christian
  • Evangelist

• If I don't wear something I feel confident in, I don't play as well.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Play
  • Feel
  • Confident

• Scared out of his seven senses.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Scared
  • Senses

• By and large these attempts to rewrite history were not taken seriously, but it was disconcerting to hear that they had gained even a toehold.

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • History
  • Taken

• The only club that could lure me away from Dortmund is Real Madrid.

  

  Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
  • Real

• I hate bands that hang around, like, 10 years too long - they're like the drunk at a party you can't get rid of.

  

  Al Jourgensen 1000 Homo DJs
  • Hate
  • Bands
  • Hang Around

• I'm convinced that the man who has learned to meditate upon the Lord will be able to run on his feet and walk in his spirit. Although he may be hurried by his vocation, that's not the issue. The issue is how fast his spirit is going. To slow it down takes a period of time.

  

  Charles Stanley
  • Time
  • May
  • Period

• My illustrious lordship, I'll show you what a woman can do.

  

  Artemisia Gentileschi

• My mother gave up a good part of her career to look after me.

  

  David Cassidy
  • Up
  • Good
  • Mother

• I can only think of one wacky best friend who I thought was awesome: Rhys Ifans in 'Notting Hill.' He really nailed the wacky best friend.

  

  Jemaine Clement
  • Friend
  • Awesome

• Paul Smith's artwork was so elegant and so graphic, so I think that's always had a strong effect on me, especially starting out.

  

  Cliff Chiang
  • Strong

• I had a great deal of arrogance and a great deal of bravado, but I think the bravado was brought on by a huge insecurity.

  

  Brian Molko Placebo
  • Great
  • Insecurity

• Race in America has always centered on our mutual agreement not to see each other. White or non-white. Black or non-black. Mongoloid, Hindoo. We've always bought into to the crudest, humanity-denying forms of sorting.

  

  Eric Liu
  • America
  • Black
  • Humanity

• What we are going to do is to listen carefully to what the president says Saturday afternoon and take it from there.

  

  Jack Straw
  • President
  • Saturday

• What I'm interested in is how your career choices can affect your private life, romantically or with your mom, your relatives, your friends, your hometown, and how media manipulates information - not newspapers or blogs, but the magazines that people impulse-buy that tell you what's hot and who's not.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • People
  • Life
  • Friends

• Investing capital in the free market creates innovation, businesses, jobs and economic growth. Investing capital in the government creates more bureaucracy, more paperwork and inefficiency.

  

  Michael Ramirez
  • Innovation
  • Economic
  • Investing

• I'm thrilled to be taking over Green Arrow. What I adore about the Arrow is his recklessness. He'll shoot off on an impulse, dispatch someone if they deserve it; his heroism is instinctive.

  

  Ann Nocenti
  • Green

• I don't like the tendency on the part of so many people today to think that those who don't agree with them are bad. In fact, I find that very dangerous.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • People
  • Bad
  • Today

• Obama, startled that components of government behave as interest groups, seems utterly unfamiliar with public choice theory. It demystifies and de-romanticizes politics by applying economic analysis - how incentives influence behavior - to government.

  

  George Will
  • Choices
  • Influence
  • Economic