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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Many people secretly think that gays are a lot happier than they are, and want to punish them.
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I try not to deal with people's hostility, though I must if they have something I need from them, as the professors did at Columbia or my landlord did.
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People have known of Shakespeare's homosexuality down through the ages.
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Interestingly, the best way to promote intimacy is to demand it.
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I didn't grow up with any concept of people being deviants unless they mistreated others.
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There is no universal coming out process, so far as I know.
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We each have a personal myth, a vision of who we really are and what we want. Health means that part of what you want is to give to others.
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The action we take and the decisions we make in this decade will have consequences far into this century. If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch.
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With those attacks, the terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States. And war is what they got.
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Modern parents want to nurture so skillfully that Mother Nature will gasp in admiration at the marvels their parenting produces from the soft clay of children.
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Children who open their lunchboxes and find mothers' handwritten notes telling them how amazingly bright they are tend to falter when they encounter academic difficulties.
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Only recently - about five minutes ago, relative to the long-running human comedy - have parents been driving themselves to distraction by taking too seriously the idea that 'as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.'
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Promoting dependency is the Democratic Party's vocation. It knows that almost all entitlements are forever, and those that are not - e.g., the lifetime eligibility for welfare, repealed in 1996 - are not for the middle class.
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Traditionally, baseball punishes preening. In a society increasingly tolerant of exhibitionism, it is splendid when a hitter is knocked down because in his last at bat he lingered at the plate to admire his home run.