George Will Quotes
As has been said, standards are always out of date - that is why we call them standards.
Quotes to Explore
-
I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.
-
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
-
You don't want to take the world over with a whole hamper full of dirty clothes. That's the main thing people overlook. And take a shower, take a bath every day.
-
Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.
-
I am no fashion diva - I grew up on the beaches in South Africa and am a nature girl that spends a lot of time outdoors. Fashion speaks to me through an occasion.
-
I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.
-
I met will.i.am in the studio and played him a couple of songs and he liked them. We're similar but there's nobody in my lane doing what I'm doing.
-
I'm kind of a sucker for the retro-diagnoses.
-
I'm a good audience in general, but it's hard to make me laugh.
-
Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
-
I've been to London twice. I saw the Broadway show 'Billy Elliot' there - phenomenal. I was crying through the entire thing.
-
I like things going on in my life. I don't want to be on a beach somewhere just relaxing.
-
The whole idea that the Constitution of the United States would be used to advance a political agenda is absurd.
-
Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
-
Alanis Morissette - I love how she's not afraid to say what she wants to say. Love it or hate it, she's going to say it. And her vocals are crazy; they're amazing, and I also love how her music is really organic.
-
I find it hard to act other than the way I feel.
-
I can make my own decisions, I can do the music I like. If I fail, it's me failing - you know.
-
On the other hand, when I give it closer thought, I realize I'm not enough of a dictator to conduct an orchestra because it requires a pretty awful person. When you read these biographies of famous conductors, they are all awful people who fail in their private relationships.
-
I think, if I had my choice, I would spend all my time in the studio writing, and creating music.
-
When the Taiwan Relations Act passed in 1979, our biggest concern was preventing the use of military force against Taiwan. Little did we know that our friends on Taiwan could so effectively use the space created by our friendship to revolutionize their political system.
-
We read our own political content into The Clash, and they accepted it.
-
My motto is never to hold on to anything. I accept and then let go: not just the negatives, but the praise, too. Or it'll get to my head.
-
I don't know if ISU helped me become what I am, but I know that if I hadn't gone there, I wouldn't be what I am today.
-
As has been said, standards are always out of date - that is why we call them standards.
