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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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 am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.
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The interesting thing is that you don't often meet a poet who doesn't have a sense of humour, and some of them do keep it out of their poems because they're afraid of being seen as light versifiers.
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'The Graduate' must be the best use of songs ever in a movie; it adds a layer to the movie you wouldn't ever get from a score.
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Schools should be places of learning and joy, not testing and agita.
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Play as well as you can; that's it, as opposed to creating these odd paranoias, trying to be something you're not.
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No doubt the ridiculous politicians are right to like politics. They have found careers in which success can be achieved by being ridiculous. Imagine Jimmy Carter or George W. Bush rising to the top of any other profession.
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The only things we can keep are the things we freely give to God. What we try to keep for ourselves is just what we are sure to lose.
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Corruption is not the sole test of your worthiness to form the government.
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I first became interested in Ho Chi Minh in 1964-1965 while I was stationed at the U.S. Embassy in South Vietnam as a foreign service officer with the Department of State. The government in Saigon was at the point of collapse and the [Lyndon] Johnson administration was preparing to send U.S. combat troops to prevent a communist victory there. I became convinced that the U.S. effort would not succeed because of the lack of conviction in the Saigon government compared to the discipline and sense of self-sacrifice among the Viet Cong.
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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.
