George Will Quotes
The First Amendment is not a blanket freedom-of-information act. The constitutional newsgathering freedom means the media can go where the public can, but enjoys no superior right of access.
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I never want to hold myself up as the poster child of the successful mother-businesswoman. It's a total 'Gong Show.' I won't pretend. When you do so many things, something always suffers. You just can't be great at everything.
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Quitting law school was the most difficult decision of my life. But I felt this great relief that this is my life and I can do what I want with it.
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I eat a cheeseburger with French fries almost every day.
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I didn't know what a stockbroker was when I was eight, but I would just tell everybody that's what I was going to be.
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Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.
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It's very special having a new little girl.
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To me, success is choice and opportunity.
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I don't have to be a size zero anymore. But I still want to feel and look good.
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When you love something, it doesn't feel like work.
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I have consistently supported laws ensuring women are able to make their own health care decisions, and I will continue to protect women's access to contraceptives and reproductive health care.
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We need to defend absolutely the freedom of speech.
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I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill.
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I think self-love isn't some destination you get to and you are then incapable of feeling those feelings, but a journey in which you adapt your experiences to make for a happier life.
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I'm not a biographer, I'm a novelist.
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A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.
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Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on time. The trick is to always keep the engine running.
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A residence of many years in Yorkshire, and an inveterate habit of collecting all kinds of odd and out-of-the-way information concerning men and matters, furnished me, when I left Yorkshire in 1872, with a large amount of material, collected in that county, relating to its eccentric children.
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It isn't a given that the companies that provide mobility today will also be the ones to do so tomorrow. Every company has to work hard to make this happen.
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People are incredibly rude about it sometimes. Like "What? You're married?" Strange reaction to have. Proves what people's ideas about marriage are. "We're having a baby." "What?" As if it's the end of the world. Of course, it's the start of a brilliant world.
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It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.
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I never thought of myself as a comedian. That is a label – make me laugh. I want to make you think.
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I tend to discourage people from calling me 'Sir Ian,' because I don't like being separated out from the rest of the population. Of course, it can be useful if you're writing an official letter, like trying to get a visa or something passed through Parliament. They're impressed by these things.
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The First Amendment is not a blanket freedom-of-information act. The constitutional newsgathering freedom means the media can go where the public can, but enjoys no superior right of access.
