George Will Quotes

Freedom means the freedom to behave coarsely, basely, foolishly.

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• You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • True
  • Dream
  • Dreams

• I don't find much influence in opera. It was such a different part of me.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • Different
  • Me
  • Influence

• There was a windstorm in L.A., and the morning after there was no smog, and I could see the mountains. And I was like... 'There's mountains? Snowcap mountains?' That's insane; I've been there for thirteen years, and I've never seen that view before, seeing the mountains in the distance.

  

  A. J. Buckley
  • Morning
  • Distance
  • View

• I did not have any money, so when I came to New York, I just dressed myself with whatever I could find and the Army-Navy store.

  

  Babette March
  • Money
  • Myself
  • Army

• I don't live by all these rigid, weird rules that make me feel all fenced in. I just like the way that I feel like, and that makes me feel very free.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Live
  • Free
  • Me

• When I was a kid and putting out my first records, there was a lot made out of the fact that the '50s/'60s generation was so dominant.

  

  Beck
  • First
  • Generation
  • Kid

• We'd all like to believe that perhaps people could stop killing each other.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • People
  • Believe
  • Stop

• If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Time
  • Faith
  • Patience

• Publishers, naturally, loathe used books and have developed strategies to depress the secondhand market. They bring out new, even more expensive editions of popular textbooks every three to four years, in a classic cycle of planned obsolescence.

  

  James Surowiecki
  • Popular

• I make the girls jump like I'm Kris Kross

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Girl
  • Jump
  • Bragging

• There are reveries so deep, reveries which help us descend so deeply within ourselves that they rid us of our history. They liberate us from our name. These solitudes of today return us to the original solitudes.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • History
  • Help
  • Today

• What a name – Pyotr Frankis. I wondered who had made it up for him. Pyotr Frankis, Jascha – Slavs all over the place, it would seem. Just like my great-grandmother. I felt for her in my mind about the same way you’d feel for a stray piece of food in your mouth with your tongue, but as usual, I had no sense of her beyond a particularly intense memory.

  

  Pat Cadigan
  • Up
  • Great
  • Mind

• I remember when both Gnarls Barkley and Justin [Timberlake] lost for Album of the Year [at the Grammys], and I looked at Justin, and I was like: 'Do you want me to go onstage for you? You know, do you want me to fight?

  

  Kanye West
  • Remember
  • Lost

• When you are on the podium nobody is asking you if you are 15 or 30 years old. What matters is who can do great gymnastics.

  

  Oksana Chusovitina
  • Great
  • Years
  • Gymnastics

• The ideal itself is but truth clothed in the forms of art.

  

  Octave Feuillet
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Form

• The concept that I like the most, and the one that I've taken most to heart, is the belief that people can't be united or focused unless they share a common philosophy-a philosophy that gives their effort a greater meaning.

  

  Marc Benioff
  • People
  • Heart
  • Taken

• I didn't have that much confidence. Maybe it looks that way. I'm glad it does.

  

  Elia Kazan
  • Confidence

• The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Time
  • Children
  • Training

• An artist has to go to every extreme, to stretch his sensibility through excess and suffering in order to feel and to communicate more. I have always been fascinated by blood. Pain can be vitalizing; it gives intensity in the place of vagueness and emptiness. If we don't suffer, how do we know that we live?

  

  Sebastian Horsley
  • Giving
  • Pain
  • Artist

• We're all friends, inside the music and outside the music. I mean, we don't sound anything alike, we don't approach our music anything alike, but we come from the same genuine place. We want our music to be real and we don't want to compromise our art.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Music
  • Real
  • Art

• It's funny how you can struggle with one piece and write a better one in a minute. When things come easy, it means it's good.

  

  Joe Satriani Chickenfoot
  • Writing
  • Mean
  • Struggle

• He has so often told me he is madly in love with me, but what does that mean when I haven't had a good word from him in three months?

  

  Eva Braun
  • Love
  • Mean
  • Good Word

• Freedom means the freedom to behave coarsely, basely, foolishly.

  

  George Will
  • Mean
  • Behave