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
ambition kids guitar
I had no ambition when I was a kid other than to play guitar and get in a rock 'n' roll band. I don't really like to be the guy in the white suit at the front. Like in the Beatles, I was the one who kept quiet at the back and let the other egos be at the front.
knows know-how inverted
I don't know how you were diverted You were perverted too. I don't know how you were inverted No one alerted you.
goal life-goal ifs
If you drop out you put yourself further away from the goal of life than if you were to keep working.
drinking kids night
My mum did encourage me, perhaps most of all by never discouraging me from anything I wanted to do. If you tell kids not to, they're going to do it in the end anyway. I'd finished all that staying-out-all-night-drinking bit when everybody else came to it. Probably why I don't like alcohol today. I had it all by the age of 10.
talking people annoyed
It just annoyed me that people got so into the Beatles. "Beatles, Beatles, Beatles." It's not that I don't like talking about them. I've never stopped talking about them. It's "Beatles this, Beatles that, Beatles, Beatles, Beatles, Beatles." Then in the end, it's like "Oh, sod off with the Beatles," you know?
ideas used fellas
We used to send up the idea of getting to the top. John would shout, "Where are we going, fellas?" We'd shout back, "To the top, Johnny!
tree religion branches
All religions are branches of one big tree.
children gossip secret
Oh yeah, gossip. I heard you on the secret wireless. You know the devil's radio child.
song doe demos
I hope somebody does this to all my crap demos when I'm dead, making them into hit songs.
lying expression telling-the-truth
It's easier to tell a lie, than to tell the truth. It's easier to kill a fly, than it is to turn it loose.
expression
Everything is Dinky Doo.
people albums looks
Sometimes, you release an album and the record company just about ignores it, and so many people don't even know it's out. And I'm not about to jump up and down shouting, "Hey folks, look at me! I'm cool and groovy!" That's not what George Harrison is all about.
long mind dropping-out
I don't mind anybody dropping out of anything, but it's the imposition on somebody else I don't like. The moment you start dropping out and then begging off somebody else to help you, then it's no good. It doesn't matter what you are as long as you work.
flower people going-away
That's what the whole Sixties Flower-Power thing was about: 'Go away, you bunch of boring people.