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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For years, I advised George Steinbrenner to get out of town because he dishonored my hometown with his bullying and bombast.
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I proposed abolishing boxing because it was bad for the brain, but boxers were generally so decent that I loved being around the gyms.
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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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In New York, Kid Carter was pure vanilla for a city with stronger tastes.
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Into La Bombonera danced the most agile, rhythmic, beautiful, sensuous people I have ever seen. And that was just the fans.
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Lance Armstrong has joined the legion of the lost, the great athletes who were barred or exiled for sins admitted or charged or suspected.
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The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
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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.
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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.
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Both my parents instilled an interest in science and mathematics.
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I got up with my wife, I sat down at the computer when she went to work, and I didn't stop until she got home.
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For the novels I wrote before selling anything, I didn't outline much. I had a vague idea of the story.
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A couple of weeks after that, Zebra Books phoned with an offer, and I accepted.