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
being-yourself smart school
When you quit school at an early age, I think you have a lifelong need to show the world - and maybe yourself - that you're really smart after all.
depressing people culture
It's depressing to see blacks wanting to dive into the mainstream of American commercial life. They come from a magnificent African culture based on aesthetics, and they all want to become fort builders like the vicious people who originally enslaved them.
tombstone oscars winner
Having 'Oscar winner' on your tombstone is a great thing.
weekend winning awards
I don't remember who wins awards [Oscars]. I've won a few but what I really remember are movies. I love films, so I'm not concerned about speculation about winning things because I really enjoy being in films that last longer than an opening weekend. That's my goal in life.
cocky thinking years
Look, it's very easy to sit here right now with some films in the bank that I like and think I have a shot and feel pretty cocky. But, you know, three years from now, I could very easily be saying, 'Paper or plastic?'
directors
The directors are always sharp. It's true.
suits liquid bats
I resolve not to drink liquids before donning the Bat-suit.
choices life-is experiments
Life is the greatest experiment. Each of us is an experiment of one-observer and subject-making choices, living with them, recording the effects.
halloween blue ideas
I also have always liked the monster within idea. I like the zombies being us. Zombies are the blue-collar monsters.
saving holding-back another-time
Why are you stingy with yourselves? Why are you holding back? What are you saving for—for another time? There are no other times. There is only now. Right now.
west economic individual
In the West, the basic economic and social unit is the individual; in Africa, it is the extended family or the collective.
dictator continents
Africa has more dictators per capita than any other continent.
enterprise trade free-trade
There was free trade in Africa. There was free enterprise in Africa before the colonialists came.
dictator
The only good dictator is a dead one.