George Will Quotes

Arizonans should not be judged disdainfully and from a distance by people whose closest contacts with Hispanics are with fine men and women who trim their lawns and put plates in front of them at restaurants, not with illegal immigrants passing through their backyards at 3 A.M.

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• For as long as I could remember, the person in E23 pasted the same Halloween decoration, a witch with a giant wart on her crone's nose, but whenever kids rang, the tenant wouldn't answer. At first, kids figured they'd just missed the guy: bad timing. But it seemed impossible that all of us missed him every year.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Long
  • Kids
  • Remember

• This music won't do. There's not enough sarcasm in it.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Music
  • Enough
  • Sarcasm

• You are not condemned for anything, but you are also not excused from anything. See these two ideas together at the same time, and a powerful third force for self-awakening is created.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Time
  • Together
  • Powerful

• Too much to know is to know naught but fame.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Knowledge
  • Knows
  • Fame

• Let no man seek Henceforth to be foretold that shall befall Him or his children.

  

  John Milton
  • Children
  • Foretold
  • Henceforth

• How can we explain the perpetuity of envy--a vice which yields no return?

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Envy
  • Explain
  • Yields

• Writing music and lyrics that mean something personal to me. It's an exciting, intense, cathartic, this-is-who-I-am experience.

  

  Mark Hoppus Blink-182
  • Writing
  • Mean
  • Exciting

• We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happy mortal is a model of complete perfection--which we have ourselves created.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Happy
  • Quality
  • Created

• The computer cuts my production time in half. I love it.

  

  Scott Adams
  • Computer
  • Production

• My only contact with the outside world was an RCA Victrola, and Elvis would sing, and then I'd dream about expensive cars.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • World
  • Dream
  • Car

• I believe in conscious creation, that my thoughts create my reality. But, at the same time, I don't believe that ignoring something will make it disappear.

  

  Miranda Rae Mayo
  • Believe
  • Something
  • Creation

• Arizonans should not be judged disdainfully and from a distance by people whose closest contacts with Hispanics are with fine men and women who trim their lawns and put plates in front of them at restaurants, not with illegal immigrants passing through their backyards at 3 A.M.

  

  George Will
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