George Will Quotes
Today it would be progress if everyone would stop talking about values. Instead, let us talk, as the Founders did, about virtues.
Quotes to Explore
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
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I'll never do a film because it's a massive budget and I'm gonna get lots of publicity for it and it will bring something else.
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When I look back, I am happy that my mum took me to the gymnastics club. I didn't join gymnastics to become a famous athlete or celebrity; it just happened - I did more than I expected, of course.
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We earned our dollars in a hard way;, nobody gave us a feast or gave it on a plate. We worked hard and we have innovated; we have made things in a better way at a cheaper rate and gave it to the people of India.
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Museums are western inventions where the rich and the powerful or the government and the state tend to exhibit the signs and symbol and images of their culture.
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I know that I cannot be with a person for three hours without saying at least ten things that would kill me.
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The amount of culture going on in a small country like Israel is amazing.
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I'm so proud of Maryland's firefighters, risking their lives to protect others, but we need to protect our protectors with the best equipment training and resources.
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Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.
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There was a time in my life when one aspect of my lifestyle called for watching a lot of television.
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As a newly married person, as much as I would love for my husband to buy into the 'my way or the highway' philosophy, you realize it's all about compromising and finding some sort of middle ground that everyone can live with.
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Americans welcome carbon limits because they want to protect their families from harm.
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The desire to really compete again has been there for a long time.
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I don't know about you, but I love going on trips - especially with my family.
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The attitude of foreign to English musicians is unsympathetic, self-opinionated and pedantic. They believe that their tradition is the only one (this is specially true of the Viennese) and that anything that is not in accordance with that tradition is 'wrong' and arises from insular ignorance.
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Our economy has been at risk by investment schemes aimed at making not just a few, but many extra dollars, and we need to start insisting on the right rules and transparency so this doesn't happen again.
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We're in the midst of the greatest crisis we've ever seen and if we don't stop laughing about it and deal with it, we're going to find ourself in the midst of chaos, confusion and civil war. It's time we started acting like grownups.
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Comparing oneself to others in such terms as "Just as I am so are they, just as they are so am I," he should neither kill nor cause others to kill.
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I love working with actors, and it's great that I'm an actor myself. I know how I like to be directed and how I like to be talked to.
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If you've got cockles, those nickel-size, heart-shaped mollusks, and you want to get fancy, steam them, then toss the meat in finely ground cornmeal.
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The most inspiring thing as an artist is when someone says, 'I believe in you'; sometimes that works even better than Grammys.
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Today it would be progress if everyone would stop talking about values. Instead, let us talk, as the Founders did, about virtues.
