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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Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.
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I'm like a junky without an addiction.
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As a young man with celebrity parents I yearned to ignore my heritage (or, more precisely, have other people ignore my famous parents) and "make it" in my chosen career entirely on my own merit (which of course never happens, you're always found out).
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It is such a great fault to talk too much that, in business and conversation, if what is good is also brief, it is doubly good, and one gains by brevity what one often loses by an excess of words.
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I think American films right now are suffering from an excess of scale. Lots of movies we're seeing now are more akin to video games than stories about human life and relationships. Twelve- to 20-year-olds are maybe the largest economic force in the US movie business. I'm not a very nostalgic person - but I enjoy a good story.
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Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses.
