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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Remember that I was out of the closet at the age of sixteen. My parents knew I was gay; I'd had to tell them.
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My mother and father were fantastic, very active. I find it difficult to say this, but I'm quite a loving person and I've always been loving to my friends. In the long run, that pays off. I'm very interested in other people, and if you are, they're interested in you.
garden people bother
I just go in my back garden. It's the only place where people don't come and bother you.
gay worry individuality
Part of me looks at the gay movement now and worries that we're losing our individuality.
dog children enough
I'm not responsible enough to have a dog - or a child.
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I try to exist in a world where there is freedom of opinion, where you're allowed to make jokes. I don't want to live in some PC world where no-one's allowed to say anything.
thinking giving individual
I think being individual in the show business is what gives you life and longevity.
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I'm not someone who can sing anything. And my favorite singers aren't people whose voice you would say is amazing. I'm a big Bob Dylan fan, a huge David Bowie fan. None of those people have orthodox, cabaret voices. These are people where what they're singing about is just as important as how they're singing it.
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If an interview just serves the idea of celebrity, then I think that sucks. I don't want to do that.
freshness news people stale worried
I never worried about getting stale because the news and the people induce freshness every working hour.
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In 1949, I saw a World War II veteran named Lou Brissie, who had nearly lost a lower leg in combat, pitch in the All-Star Game in Brooklyn.
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Four years in the White House and two presidential campaigns is an awful long time. In politics, every year in the White House is like dog years, six years off your life.
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There has been an awful lot of time and money spent looking at the president over the last four years The American people saw through those investigations. They voted for the president. And despite all of this time and attention, nothing has turned up because the president and the first lady did nothing wrong.
galaxies substance
I always think of space-time as being the real substance of space, and the galaxies and the stars just like the foam on the ocean.