George Will Quotes

Correct thinkers think that 'baseball trivia' is an oxymoron: nothing about baseball is trivial.

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• When you're a big money earner and your husband isn't, it makes you question how feminine you are. I felt I was less feminine than if I was a supporting wife, or a second fiddle, or 'Mrs. Higgins.'

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Money
  • Question
  • Wife

• Just for the record, I personally do agree with some of the sentiments of Rabbi Meir Kahane. I think he was right about certain things, wrong about other things, but I have absolutely nothing, no association whatsoever with Kahane Chai leaders.

  

  Aaron Klein
  • Think
  • Nothing
  • Wrong

• Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you gotta stand in the doorway.

  

  B. B. King
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Family

• Over the years I have tried to develop something which is technically assured.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • Years
  • Something
  • Tried

• My passion is doing movies, and as long as I keep doing that, I'll be happy. I want to do movies, fun roles and dramatic ones. I love all of it.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Happy
  • Fun
  • Passion

• Zimbabweans are so smart and witty and able to weave together tons of situations and experiences into terminologies that are just utterly original.

  

  Danai Gurira
  • Together
  • Smart
  • Witty

• I was always interested in architecture, but the editors of the magazines who demanded these subjects for the illustrations of Hopper wanted people waving with their arms.

  

  Edward Hopper
  • People
  • Architecture

• I was very disruptive. I was horrible. I didn't learn like all the other kids. I had to sometimes take my tests out in the hallways because I couldn't focus. But, my teachers would come see me in the plays and were like 'I don't understand how you can focus and be in the moment in a play and you go into math class and you can't focus.'

  

  Eliza Coupe
  • Kids
  • Focus
  • Math

• These were all middle-class kids from literary backgrounds, joining this sort of train going by, this pop train, jumping on. Whereas the rest of the rock scene, you'll find that there's mostly working-class people.

  

  Kevin Ayers
  • People
  • Kids
  • Rest

• The American people need no course in philosophy or political science of church history to know that God should not be made into a celestial party chairman.

  

  Mario Cuomo
  • People
  • God
  • American

• Without social networks, you're not the coolest thing on the Christmas list, and you're not getting any bite.

  

  Joe Green
  • Christmas

• When one must, one can.

  

  Charlotte Whitton

• 'The Globe' is one of the most terrifying theatres in London. It's that mob element - everyone packed in and staring up at you.

  

  Arthur Darvill
  • Up

• And we can celebrate when we have a government that has earned back the trust of the people it serves... when we have a government that honors our Constitution and stands up for the values that have made America, America: economic freedom, individual liberty, and personal responsibility.

  

  John Boehner
  • People
  • Up
  • America

• I always believed that I had to pretend to be happy. But what I've learned is that it doesn't matter what race or class or demographic you come from. I truly believe that sadness is relative.

  

  Adwoa Aboah
  • Believe
  • Happy

• I would love to be part of a community.

  

  John Grant
  • Community

• I think any real one-sheet for an album would say, 'Well, here's what I've been doing.' And that would be it.

  

  John Darnielle
  • Real

• We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.

  

  John Sculley
  • Children
  • Family
  • Abuse

• An intuitionist conception of justice is, one might say, but half a conception.

  

  John Rawls
  • Justice

• As any mother knows, we just want our babies to feel better quickly, and we all do whatever we have to do to help them - no matter how much it inconveniences us or hurts our backs!

  

  Constance Marie
  • Help
  • Mother
  • Backs

• There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there's never more than one.

  

  C. S. Lewis

• The fact is that our kids aren't reading books - or frankly, much of anything lately. Schools are under funded, some schools even closing their libraries. Parents have to realize that it's their job, and not the school's job, to get kids into the habit of reading for fun.

  

  James Patterson
  • School
  • Job
  • Kids

• People want you to be the ambassador of everything. This happens to me especially when I go to Europe. I have to be the ambassador of everything. I learned this from Elena Poniatowska - intelligent woman, great lady, one of my heroes, one of my spiritual mentors, I love her. Someone is in this big museum and they ask her, "Elenita, what do you think about Mexican women . . ." And she says, "I haven't a clue!"

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Spiritual

• Correct thinkers think that 'baseball trivia' is an oxymoron: nothing about baseball is trivial.

  

  George Will
  • Thinking
  • Baseball
  • Oxymoron