George Will Quotes

If those who wrote and ratified the 14th Amendment had imagined laws restricting immigration - and had anticipated huge waves of illegal immigration - is it reasonable to presume they would have wanted to provide the reward of citizenship to the children of the violators of those laws? Surely not.

George Will

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• I have a little basement studio set up here at my house, and I do probably 80 percent of the recording here on my own. With multi-tracking technology, I can play various parts on top of one another.

  

  Washed Out
  • Up
  • House
  • Technology

• Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel better about who they are. But, it makes these people, actors especially, fantasy figures for a fantasy world. Acting is about being real being honest.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • People
  • World
  • Real

• It's an honour and a thrill and a privilege just to play in the NHL.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • Play
  • Just
  • Privilege

• What I say is, national defense is the most important thing we do in Washington, but there's still waste in the military budget.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Important
  • Military
  • Budget

• Mumbai may not be my city. But it is my kind of city.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • May
  • City
  • Kind

• I'm human. I'm a person. I would love to be in a relationship with a man. I would love to find the right man; I think that's natural - that's what we all want.

  

  Lara Giddings
  • Love
  • Man
  • Relationship

• This is the central illusion in life: that randomness is a risk, that it is a bad thing ...

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Risk

• There is only one China. Taiwan is not independent. It does not enjoy sovereignty as a nation, and that remains our policy, our firm policy.

  

  Colin Powell
  • Independent

• Twitter is a form of free speech, and I'm all for that. But if Cee Lo Green, a maverick of sorts, can't get on Twitter and say something outlandish or outrageous, then what is the whole point of Twitter at all?

  

  CeeLo Green
  • Free
  • Green

• If a girl is smiling and is bringing positive energy and she's happy, that's what I notice right away - and her teeth.

  

  Chandler Parsons
  • She
  • Happy
  • Girl

• I aim to be translucent, so you don't notice the words, just their meaning. I haven't much insight into people's motivations.

  

  Ken Follett
  • People
  • Words

• Being in a studio is quite a creative and energetic process.

  

  Andrew Hozier-Byrne

• I have always wanted a bunny and I'll always have a rabbit the rest of my life.

  

  Amy Sedaris
  • Life
  • Rest

• I don't have to act for work anymore; I can act for passion. That's freeing, but it's also a prison of its own. When you can do anything you want, you're really responsible to do something great. And that's scary.

  

  Ashton Kutcher
  • Work
  • Great
  • Passion

• But what I intend to do, the day after Hillary Clinton is elected president of the United States, is to do everything I can to make sure she goes forward as progressively as she can.

  

  Bernie Sanders
  • She

• My idea of professionalism is probably a lot of people's idea of obsessive.

  

  David Fincher
  • People

• In the U.S., the incidence of diabetes has increased proportionately with the per capita consumption of sugar.

  

  Frederick Banting

• To see him there lifeless and breathless was very emotional for me. But I held myself together because I knew he's very much alive in his spirit, and that was just a shell. But I kissed him on his forehead, and I hugged him, and I touched him and I said, 'Michael, I'll never leave you. You'll never leave me.'

  

  Jermaine Jackson The Jacksons
  • Together
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• The thing I like most about books is that anybody can afford them. They have an innate valuelessness.

  

  Chris Ware

• All I know for sure is that issues like race, like class, are always best approached with compassion and open-mindedness.

  

  Ezra Koenig
  • Compassion
  • Race
  • Class

• I learned a lesson that I don't ever want to be a CEO.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Want
  • Learned
  • Lesson

• Our Nation's immigration laws are disrespected both by those who cross our borders illegally and by the businesses that hire those illegal immigrants.

  

  Steve Israel
  • Immigration
  • Borders
  • Crosses

• I don't believe in being a size 0. I don't believe in starving. Women should totally embrace their curves.

  

  Priyanka Chopra
  • Believe
  • Women

• If those who wrote and ratified the 14th Amendment had imagined laws restricting immigration - and had anticipated huge waves of illegal immigration - is it reasonable to presume they would have wanted to provide the reward of citizenship to the children of the violators of those laws? Surely not.

  

  George Will
  • Immigration
  • Wave
  • Citizenship