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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Conservatives believe government's principal functions are the preservation of freedom and removal of restraints on the individual. Liberalism's ascent in the first two-thirds of this century reflected the new belief that government should also confer capacities on individuals. Liberalism's decline in the final third of this century has reflected doubts about whether government can be good at that, or whether government that is good at that is good for the nation's character.
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The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.
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Each of my symphonies has a fresh character with a specific definition of their own.
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I'm proud of them for showing character and coming back. Hopefully, we'll have more focus when we come over here tomorrow. I think we're going to have a little workout before we leave school.
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I love the show, and I'm proud of my association with the show, and certainly the character is one that is very much a part of me.
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It's what each of us sows, and how, that gives to us character and prestige. Seeds of kindness, goodwill, and human understanding, planted in fertile soil, spring up into deathless friendships, big deeds of worth, and a memory that will not soon fade...
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Novels were designed to entertain, and those of us who wish to keep the art form alive need to keep this in mind. To aim for lofty literature instead of aiming for a good story with real characters who grow and develop and a setting that's brought to life is... like putting the varnish on the canvas first.
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I wanted my character to be accessible and nonthreatening.
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You never take Deerfield Beach lightly. We weren't ready to play, but the kids showed character in the second half.
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I didn't believe Clinton, and I couldn't buy the party line -- which meant I was the enemy now, ... I didn't think I was a hypocrite, because my defense of Clinton against past bimbo eruptions had been predicated on my belief that he wouldn't create new ones ... For several years, I had served as Clinton's character witness. Now I felt like a dupe.
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I am confident that with the wholesome character of our American people, justice will prevail and liberty will endure.
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'Mad Men' is nothing more than the fulfillment of every possible stereotype of the early 1960s bundled up nicely to convince consumers that the sort of morally repugnant behavior exhibited by its characters - with one-night-stands and excessive consumption of Cutty Sark and Lucky Strikes - is glamorous and 'vintage.'
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For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?
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For anyone who's read the books, it will be really fun to see the characters come alive. We believe we've captured the essence of those characters and the essence of those books.