George Will

George Will
George Frederick Willis an American newspaper columnist and political commentator. He is a Pulitzer Prize–winner known for his conservative commentary on politics. In 1986, The Wall Street Journal called him "perhaps the most powerful journalist in America," in a league with Walter Lippmann...
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth4 May 1941
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Nothing is improbable until it moves into the past tense
Not good. I'm not going to say any more.
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not from the sublime to the ridiculous -- from the very ridiculous to simply the ridiculous.
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Not everybody's going to love your ads. We're concerned that the consumers we're talking to get the ad, and research showed that they did.
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Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement.
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Nothing has been discussed that is remotely controversial about my past involvement with Devco. Even if I hadn't stepped down as chairman, Devco would not be a conflict of interest.
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It was a good win for the sophomores,
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It was a good win anytime you put 42 on the board and them to a zero. (Valley West) is a big, physical team and they've been looking good the last couple games. I thought it would be a dogfight.
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It was a good spot because the game wasn't on the line at that point. It wasn't like if he made an out we would lose. Even if he didn't get the hit, we'd still have the lead.
great regular
It was a great way to end (the regular season).
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It was a great game that could have gone either way and we were very fortunate to win. Manasquan is a great team that beat us at our place. The girls played their hearts out.
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It was a complete knockdown on a controversial question. It's really quite astonishing.
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It was a cold winter night, as I remember it. We were playing a Cary Grant movie or something like that and he suddenly appeared and held the door open for seniors.
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It was part of the evening: If he didn't do it, the evening wasn't complete.