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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If an interview just serves the idea of celebrity, then I think that sucks. I don't want to do that.
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I only do what I love, when I love, how I love to fill up the time.
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I'm looking for conversations that will be meaningful with people that want to have meaningful connections with an audience.
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Sports is a bunch of people gathering around, watching something that they're not actually connected to - they're just emotionally connected.
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For the saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished freedom is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while there was still time.
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I never worried about getting stale because the news and the people induce freshness every working hour.
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It's a Stanley Cup thing. The boys mangle one another for a series, performing all kinds of nasty tricks, then they make nice, shaking soggy hands as the teams shuffle in opposite directions.
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Youth sports could not exist without millions of volunteers and modestly paid coaches who teach our children how to skate and catch and dribble and also how to get along with others.
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As my wife will attest, I do not shop casually.
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Ball caps travel far and wide. They do far more than keep the sun out of your eyes or the cold off your head. Ball caps are a statement.
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Baseball's postseason shifts from game to game because of starting pitchers and the geography of the ballparks.
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Certain Stanley Cup traditions remain intact, including the handshake line between players who had been belting one another for a couple of weeks.
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Fans all have their memories of pennant races, good memories, sick memories.
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FIFA is a vuvuzela. It's in your ear, but you don't want to hear it, and then eventually it goes away.