George Will Quotes

When liberals advocate a value-added tax, conservatives should respond: Taxing consumption has merits, so we will consider it - after the 16th Amendment is repealed.

George Will

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Tiptoeing on a tightrope past insider trading laws may be deft and clever, but it doesn't make it right.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

PastCleverRightMayLawsMake

Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days is being written by Southerners.

Robert Morgan

BestPoetryThinkAmericanDays

That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects.

John Webster

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You should never have regrets in life. All the steps that I have taken in my career have served for something, and I have learned from them.

Alvaro Morata

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To do a 'Bond' picture is a blessing but also a curse.

Maryam D'Abo

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Having a birthday around the holidays was never easy and, with every successive year, it felt more and more as if celebrating my birthday got thrown into the December holiday mix as an afterthought.

Chelsea Manning

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I want to go to Jamaica, actually. My whole family's from there, so I'd like to go there.

Astro

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I'm not naturally an extrovert. I'm a writer - I sit in a room by myself making things up. That is where I'm happiest.

Paula Hawkins

MyselfUpRoomThingsSitWhere

I'm somebody who takes risks, for better or worse. Fortunately, most of them have been for the better!

Sharon Lawrence

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What commercialism has brought into Linux has been the incentive to make a good distribution that is easy to use and that has all the packaging issues worked out.

Linus Torvalds

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I grew up close to Melbourne, about two hours outside, on Phillip Island. It's really small; it's kind of a little summer beach town.

Liam Hemsworth

BeachSmallSummerKindIslandUp

I never really got into game shows. The easiest one is 'Wheel Of Fortune' because you just have to know words, and for the most part everyone knows words.

Kumail Nanjiani

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