George Will Quotes
Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses.
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I went to dance classes from 9 in the morning until 1, then to school from 3 to 10 at night, always under the threat that if I failed a single course I could forget about dancing.
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I don't want a wig that looks like a wig; I want one that could pass for a weave.
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Religions are many, reason is one, we are all brothers.
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To earn more, you must learn more.
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Popularity is the only insult that has not yet been offered to Mr. Whistler.
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Don't let anybody infiltrate your dream
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If you wish to be a lawyer, attach no consequence to the place you are in, or the person you are with; but get books, sit down anywhere, and go to reading for yourself. That will make a lawyer of you quicker than any other way.
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No one does wrong voluntarily.
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Experience is the great teacher; unfortunately, experience leaves mental scars, and scar tissue contracts.
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Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?
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A certain inequality in regard to property still exists in a socialist society. But in a socialist society there is no unemployment, no exploitation, no oppression of nationalities.
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You are an alchemist; make gold of that.
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No more doth it hurt to say that the body and blood are not in the sacrament.
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In the end there is only Matisse.
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Bruce Weber is an amazing photographer, and Carine Roitfeld's style - and everything she does - is gorgeous.
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For me, the melancholy of the late XXth Century is walking late at night by the Mont Blanc pen store and seeing these things always strike me as simulacra of luxury items. They seem like fakes.
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Why did the generals who have been so ready to term me a complaisant and incompetent yes-man fail to secure my removal? Was that all that difficult? No, that wasn't it; the truth was that nobody would have been ready to replace me, because each one knew that he would end up just as much a wreck as I.
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I was working on the book, but in a very subterranean kind of a fashion. And I think that giving yourself permission to respect that, without being lazy and not doing work when you could be doing work and just don't feel like it - that's a different balance that can be complicated to strike.
