George Will Quotes
Americans complain a lot about the government and they voice a generalized suspicion of the government, but they constantly clammer for more of it.
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If America is a nation of laws as we proclaim, then our immigration laws are part of the package.
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I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them.
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I exercise every morning. I do light weights - 5lb and 10lb arm exercises - and then lie and lift my arms and legs. It's all about keeping core strength. I do a lot of stretching too.
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We have to change the kind of free trade deals we sign. We would have to change the absolutely central role of frenetic consumption in our culture. We would have to change the role of money in politics and our political system.
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Rand Paul does not like being compared to his father Ron any more than sons named Bush like to dance in their father's shadow, but the crucial difference is that while the Bushes all hail from the relative mainstream of the GOP, the Pauls have an ideological tributary virtually to themselves.
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I once had someone say to me in an interview, 'You are more ugly on the screen than in real life.'
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I owe everything to France.
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As humans, we're going to make mistakes. It's what makes us human, and most of the time, the most effective way of learning is from a mistake.
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Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
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We all have hourglass figures; your sand just settles in different places.
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Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
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I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.
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It's great living with your best friends.
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I often feel that when people have affairs, it has more to do with something they're searching for in themselves than anything else.
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The most significant indicator that there is no disaster in Iraq is the fact that there is no exodus.
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I never bought the excuse of not having time to write. If you really want to do it, you're either going to find those hours or eventually decide not to be a writer.
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I know it's silly, but I still think I'm 28.
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It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.
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Being a Hot Mom means being respected as a mom and a woman. And, the key to being a Hot Mom is having a sense of humor about yourself and all the crazy situations that arise.
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If our children are becoming teenagers who are abusive, have mental health issues, and are committing heinous crime, it only means that we have failed them as a society. We have failed to give them a safe, nurturing environment to ensure that they are well-balanced, useful persons in the society.
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The liberal uses the radical's language to achieve the conservative's aim: the preservation of the capitalist system, and the traditional ethnic/racial hierarchy within society.
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Government should be good for the liberty of the governed, and that is when it governs to the least possible degree. It should be good for the wealth of the nation, and that is when it acts as little as possible upon the labor that produces it and when it consumes as little as possible. It should be good for the public security, and that is when it protects as much as possible, provided that the protection does not cost more than it brings in.... It is in losing their powers of action that governments improve. Each time that the governed gain space there is progress.
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Americans complain a lot about the government and they voice a generalized suspicion of the government, but they constantly clammer for more of it.
