George Will Quotes
Baseball exemplifies a tension in the American mind, the constant pull between our atomistic individualism and our yearning for community.
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Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.
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I did have one bad accident up north near Deerhurst. I was driving back in the winter on these snowy roads, and these two snowmobilers were racing up a hill and they weren't looking, so they caught me as I was going up the other side of the hill, and they smashed into me.
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Her blue eyes were still beautiful, but they did not know what was before them, and Mary herself could never look through them again to tell Laura what she was thinking without saying a word.
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I think in the bullpen you can tell during your warmups, if you have a good feel for it. But anything can happen once you get into a game. Sometimes you just wind up throwing it better than ever before one day without knowing why.
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For 'Ghostbusters,' the thing that makes it such an amazing franchise and an amazing idea is that it is adds the element of physics and technology. It's not just about ghosts. Who the heck came up with that? It is such a good idea, such a unique combination of stuff from different genres. Ghosts and sci fi.
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The most famous Obama precept is, 'No drama.'
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Originally, we had a band known as Steely Dan. As we moved away from the band, we got whoever was appropriate for specific tunes. In a lot of cases, we gravitated toward jazz players who had more sophisticated harmonic concepts.
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So the search for a father in Central Station is also a search for a country.
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Any guy hates Valentine's Day. Even if you're in love, you can't win on Valentine's Day. If you're married, you can't win on Valentine's Day. Valentine's Day is like the thing you want to avoid at all costs.
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I have always marched to my own beat, and most frequently, it was inconsistent not only with my own immediate family, but with my culture as well.
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I have to find work wherever it might be hiding.
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I will never let money from anyone affect what I do.
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I caved in to what people wanted me to do. I thought that they weren't going to like me if I didn't.
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re: Abraham Lincoln. 'For whatever reason, and I can't explain why - that moment at which one is drawn into the orbit, irrevocably, of a life. I felt the tug of that orbit. I didn't know why; I was quite alarmed by it...'
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It is the downfall of evil, that it never sees far enough ahead.
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In the federal confirmation process, a standard question from the judiciary committee is, 'Well, if you're confirmed will you legislate?' And, with a look of horror, the nominee says, 'Oh, I won't legislate.' Well, what about the law of contract and tort; where do they think it came from, the stork?
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You don't have to be smart to act - look at the outgoing president of the United States.
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Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.
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I think we're a working man's band.
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You're always growing as a coach, and I am not done growing, and hopefully I'm not done winning.
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We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction.
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Responsibility is something higher than my family, my country, my firm, my success. Responsibility to the order of Being, where, and only where, they will be properly judged.
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Nashville is wicked. It's like a proper music community, but it's also quintessentially American. You bump into people there with cowboy hats that spit in jars and call you 'boy.' I just love that.
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Baseball exemplifies a tension in the American mind, the constant pull between our atomistic individualism and our yearning for community.
