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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There's no such thing as legacies. At least, there is a legacy, but I'll never see it.
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Our intelligence officials estimate that Saddam Hussein had the materials to produce as much as 500 tons of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent.
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Concentration of greenhouse gases, especially CO2, have increased substantially since the beginning of the industrial revolution. And the National Academy of Sciences indicates that the increase is due in large part to human activity.
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Now I am a writer who can command fairly good payments from magazines with large circulations, I very often refuse to write for them and still write sometimes for small magazines for nothing.
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I like to move among painters, mathematicians, psychologists, people who can tell me something.
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It doesn't really mean a great deal of difference to a life. You live as you wish to do and if a job is oppressing, you leave it. I've done it on several occasions.
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It even has the same phraseology as the English orders of knighthood, companions and this sort of thing.
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My split with the university was over the fact that I had become involved with helping Tibetans in India.
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When you act dramatically in that way it often has a consequence that is very negative.
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I suppose I'm led to do so by the fact of what happened to my contemporaries - people whom I've admired, people who I thought were ten times better than me when I was in my twenties and early thirties. I may have been right.
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Orwell was the sort of man who was full of grievances. He was very loyal. Once he got to know you, he was extremely loyal. He hated passionately and irrationally.
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See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.
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Those weapons of mass destruction have got to be somewhere... Nope, no weapons over there... Maybe under here.
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More seldom than not, the movies gives us exquisite sex and wholesome violence, that underscores our values. Every two child did. I will.