George Will Quotes

Big government is indeed big, and like another big creature, the sauropod dinosaur, government has a primitive nervous system: The fact of an injury to the tail could take nearly a minute to be communicated to the sauropod brain.

George Will

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: journalist
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  • Birth: May 4, 1941

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'Hedwig' is not autobiographical, but what she goes through is clearly a big metaphor. She doesn't want to be what she is, but she comes to an understanding that what happened to her has actually made her whole.

John Cameron Mitchell

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The consequences of a lack of new knowledge is decades of stagnation: the next generation will be poorer than this one.

Andre Geim

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It's a matter of keeping people on a spontaneous edge.

John Zorn

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Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I'm concerned, that's success.

Tom Petty

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I'm such an admirer, I am an admirer of villains, especially working with so many great ones.

Tom Felton

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Reducing MRSA infections is critical because these bacteria are difficult to treat and are common in healthcare settings, especially among ICU (intensive care unit) patients.

Tom Frieden

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We leap to conclusions and remember those conclusions as fact. We react on our own prejudices but don't always recognize them as such.

Ruth Ware

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Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses.

Rudolf Arnheim

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I'd move to Los Angeles if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in England and if the continent of Africa disappeared from some Martian attack.

Russell Crowe

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I am horrified by the moral amnesia that develops when a dictator dies.

Mona Eltahawy

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Growing up, I was surrounded by R&B and Hip-Hop, and the closest thing I could find to dance was gymnastics which I watched on TV. So, I just used those avenues I found available right in my milieu to express what was inside of me.

Misty Copeland

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There are two things that you need to save for. First, you need an emergency cushion of no fewer than six months of living expenses. This needs to be cash in a liquid account where you can get at it in - yes - an emergency if you need it. In other words, money markets, not CDs. You also need to save for your future: that means retirement.

Jean Chatzky

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