George Will Quotes

Chicago Cubs fans are ninety percent scar tissue.

George Will

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• Tackling affordable housing via land use planning won't necessarily solve the problem.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Problem
  • Planning
  • Housing

• A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.

  

  Hans Haacke
  • Interesting
  • Effort
  • Liberal

• When you're in college, you really don't know where you're going to end up, but you know who you want to be along that journey.

  

  Dan Rosensweig
  • Up
  • College
  • Journey

• I am a hard-news journalist. That is what I do.

  

  Candy Crowley
  • Journalist
  • Hard-News

• Men create the gods in their own image.

  

  Xenophanes
  • Men
  • Create
  • Own

• I want all my films to look distinctly different, like some other directors I admire. But in a way, I can't really take myself completely out of the movies I make.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Different
  • Want
  • Myself

• It's about finding unique, one-of-a-kind films that I would want to see myself. I think 'Party Monster' is one of those.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Party
  • Myself
  • Unique

• It's time for the State Department to permanently change its official policy to allow all members of U.S. citizens' families - no matter what size they are or how many legs they have - to evacuate together when disaster strikes.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Time
  • Together
  • Change

• I have a little boy, and I wanted to spend a lot of time with him.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Time
  • Boy
  • Him

• Because you know, down deep in my heart, when all is said and done, I still live under the illusion that basically people think of me as an up-and-coming young actor.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Appreciation
  • Lie
  • Roots

• I like 'Breaking Bad' and 'Game of Thrones.' I like that era. I like that fantasy world.

  

  Navid Negahban
  • World
  • Bad
  • Game

• I think I've become the go-to mustache man. It works in period pieces. Modern-day mustaches are probably creepy. But I get compliments - everyone's like, 'Wow, love the 'stache, dude.'

  

  Jack Huston
  • Think
  • Man
  • Like

• I have always thought, the secret purpose of the book tour is to make the writer hate the book he's written. And, as a result, drive him to write another book.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Book
  • Hate
  • Purpose

• But ultimately it comes down to how the team performs on the day.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Team
  • Day
  • Down

• As for modern Journalism, its not my business to defend it. It justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarest.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Business
  • Modern
  • Journalism

• Like the Democrats, Playboy just wants to liberate women to behave like pigs, have sex without consequences, prance about naked, and abort children.

  

  Ann Coulter
  • Women
  • Children
  • Sex

• I did want to mark the fact that it was the first African-American to win the Lead Actress category.I thought it was so progressive.

  

  Viola Davis
  • Winning
  • Actresses
  • Progressive

• I have always battled injustice. As a child, I used to fight on the side of my friends when boys terrorized them.

  

  Obiageli Ezekwesili
  • Friends
  • Child
  • Fight

• For me, I think one of the biggest battles is mentally. You have good days, and you have bad days. Randomly, you'll feel good for weeks, and then all of a sudden, you'll have a bad day where you're really sore. And you end up questioning yourself, like, 'Am I doing the right thing? Why is this so hard?'

  

  Jimmy Graham
  • Up
  • Good
  • Why

• Repeatedly opening the oven - or worse, taking out the turkey to baste it - slows down the momentum of cooking.

  

  Alex Guarnaschelli
  • Cooking

• Sometimes it feels as if the artist hasn't done the real work of engaging with the material. Film noir can't just play off looks and attitudes. A thriller needs a dose of genuine suspense. It does not have to be literal, but it does have to feel genuine. Otherwise the artist is just leeching off the form.

  

  Margo Jefferson
  • Work
  • Real
  • Done

• Chicago Cubs fans are ninety percent scar tissue.

  

  George Will
  • Chicago
  • Cubs