George Will Quotes

I think if you'd had television cameras at Gettysburg, this would be two nations today. People would not have put up with that carnage if they saw it up close. We'd have elected McClellan in 1864.

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• The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don't give a damn about democracy if I am worried about survival.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • People
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• We just here to do our job.

  

  Quavo Migos
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• It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Remember
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  • Son

• I'm proposing a change: love thy worker-bee. Celebrate the ones who toil without complaint, play on a team, construct the hive, produce the honey... executing the plan!

  

  Nancy Lublin
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• I see Baccarat in major gateway cities like Paris, Tokyo, Shanghai and Hong Kong and exotic resort locations.

  

  Barry Sternlicht
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• Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.

  

  Dan Simmons
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• We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you'd need infinite precision in order to predict future events. With sociopolitical or economic phenomena, we don't have anything like that.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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• A career is a job you love, right? That's what a career should be. If you're in a job that you hate, you should quit. That's the way I look at it. I'm in a job that I love, so I'm going to make it my career.

  

  Cameron Sinclair
  • Job
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  • Hate

• These critics who crucify me do not guess the littlest part of my sincerity. They must be burned in a blaze. I cannot learn from them.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Me
  • Learn
  • Sincerity

• I don't go out unless I'm working. My quality time is when I'm doing nothing.

  

  Nas
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  • Doing

• The next time you experience a blackout, take some solace by looking at the sky. You will not recognize it.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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  • Experience
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• I certainly don't disparage someone whose attitude towards their work is utterly different from mine - that's up to them.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Up
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• There's always been some concern that adult subject matter should be quarantined from a page that attracts children. Unlike late at night, when 'South Park' and 'Colbert' are on, impressionable minds are wide awake when the newspaper arrives.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Children
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• Whatever is truly alive must die. Look at the flowers; only plastic flowers never die.

  

  Anthony de Mello
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• I think it's awesome when a woman is in control of everything she's doing, especially in an industry like this where people think that doesn't happen often, but it really does - well, from my knowledge and how I manage my own project.

  

  Charli XCX
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• If I could really move my career much more into predominantly directing, I would jump at that.

  

  Jason Alexander
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• They disallowed this and disallowed that, and now I can't even get my head above water!

  

  Bud Abbott
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• Most people see through these issues but the corporate media doesn't reflect these sentiments.

  

  John Hall
  • People

• Not too many people in cocktail parties are aware of Bioprinting and growing organs, or the coming technological singularity; I've seen very little philosophical speculation about how far we can go, how much we could achieve.

  

  Jason Silva
  • People
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  • Philosophical

• If you feel like the beginning of your history is rooted in slavery, that really, I think, messes with your sense of self, your self-esteem, and your self-worth.

  

  David Oyelowo
  • History
  • Beginning
  • Slavery

• When you see how the President makes political or policy decisions, you see who he is. The essence of the Presidency is decision-making.

  

  Bob Woodward
  • Political
  • Decision

• As long as our user base continues to grow, at some point it will have critical mass, and at some point it will tip, and at some point, people will just have to use WhatsApp because their friends are using WhatsApp.

  

  Jan Koum
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• Then suddenly Jack was a changed boy. Something wonderful had happened to him, and it had made him different. It sometimes happened to people that they see or hear something quite wonderful and then they are never altogether the same again.

  

  E. Nesbit
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  • Different
  • Boy

• I think if you'd had television cameras at Gettysburg, this would be two nations today. People would not have put up with that carnage if they saw it up close. We'd have elected McClellan in 1864.

  

  George Will
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