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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The more one works, the better one works and the more one wants to work.
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The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.
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I suppose there's a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And it's the lost world of Thomas Jefferson. It is the lost sense of innocence that we could live with a very minimal state, with a vast sense of space in which to work out freedom.
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I never asked for a transcript, ... I hired him in a job where I didn't think he needed (a degree). His work experience was enough. And then with his job performance I gave him some responsibilities of and the title of chief administrative officer. . . . His educational background was never a big deal for me.
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I know Wes was creating such an institute, with regards to digitizing curriculums, ... He said that was the work he would do. However, it never got to the point where we took it to the regents for approval, or (it) got the funding to make it go.
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I knew that good people who wanted to be a part of the American dream have become trapped in dependency because the federal government and the state government had made it in their economic interest not to take a job because the benefits that they didn't work were better. I changed that.
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It's not fair to the rest of us when you don't go to work and you get paid.
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They have to get this resolved so they move on to the other issues. Until they know how many people will be left after the retirements take place, they won't know how much money GM will have to pay to subsidize the wages and benefits for its former workers who are left at Delphi, once the new pay scales are implemented.
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The restructuring of ATA to enhance its long-term competitiveness has involved the hard work of many dedicated ATA employees. My heart and thanks goes out to each and every one of them,
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It's not clear it's going to work in human embryos. And in order to determine that we'll have to actually do the research on human embryos and likely destroy some in the process.
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The costumes have a tendency to appear on the screen in a very short amount of time. It's very hard to see the detail and the thousands of hours of work that go into each (one),
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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 made all these films and I had all kinds of great experiences. I worked with the great filmmakers and it was a very exciting life.
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I'm pleased that I won, ... I'm happy ... that the colleagues who I worked closely with were always there to support me.