George Will Quotes
Football brings out the sociologist that lurks in some otherwise respectable citizens. They say football is a metaphor for America's sinfulness.
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Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical research is like or of the profusion of insights that can be obtained from it.
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I will not claim I will solve all the world's problems by myself. If I did, I'd have to run as a Republican or a Democrat.
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The forties are the time when you begin to take notice of certain aches and pains. Your body and brain behave in inexplicable ways: Less hair on your head, more in your ears and nostrils. More memories in the bank, less synaptic firepower with which to access them. Gravity has started to show its inexorable pull.
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I think it's really important to remind, reinforce people that their lives have value, you know? That their lives have worth.
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There's a lot of people desperately seeking to find 'the one,' and I think we should learn to be more at peace with ourselves.
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I'm not someone who feels settled.
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When I came to Philadelphia in the late '80s, it was going through a very difficult time.
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I'm not picking up my phone and calling anyone for employment.
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Be careful what you wish for because you will get it. Be even more careful what you work for because you will get it even more quickly.
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As long as I was breathing with the contractions and not pushing against them, I felt better. That idea is fundamental-to feel pain and not to resist; to go towards it. It is an incredibly spiritual practice.
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Our free enterprise system of disseminating information is collectively referred to as The Media. But there is no collective.
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We are pretty firm believers in the fact that you make your own fate, with or without the Facebook ordeal.
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My mom was born in Jamaica and has always been around a community of black people, so she encouraged me to get out and act. My dad, on the other hand, is from suburban Massachusetts, so he had not been around a lot of black people.
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I don't regard clothing as disposable, which is probably why I have so much of it!
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I am a working person. I always work, study or do research for my novel. I even work on Sunday.
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As a transgendered artist, I have always occupied a place outside of the mainstream. I have gladly paid a price for speaking my truth in the face of loathing and idiocy.
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Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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It's hard to tell the story if you're not involved yourself, emotionally.
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I don't think of myself as a fast reader. I just read a lot. When someone else might think, 'I might do the dishes,' I don't. But then the dishes multiply.
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I'm not a 25-interception quarterback, I know that.
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I hardly read fiction; I mostly read nonfiction. I like to examine material things.
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I think the wonderful thing about doing theater is that it's more of an actor's medium. I think that film is more of a director's medium. You can't edit something out on stage. It's there.
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So I try not to do press and if you can keep the balance of keeping a certain degree of anonymity and do interesting work then you can hope for a degree of career longevity.
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Football brings out the sociologist that lurks in some otherwise respectable citizens. They say football is a metaphor for America's sinfulness.
