James Packer Quotes
The last thing I think I am is perfect. I'm just trying to do the best job I can. I'm trying to be the best father I can to my kids. I'm trying to do the best job I can running my business.
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I think everyone who goes to see a 'Bond' movie expects to be impressed by the look and the locations chosen. Certainly I was when I grew up watching them, and I don't think that's changed in the last 50 years.
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I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.
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I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
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Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
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I like the dark undertow of grime, and it gets me aggressive. You need that aggression.
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Yes, my parents are strict about me having a childhood. I go ice skating and sledding, and swimming in the summer.
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I know that many authors say editors don't edit anymore, but that's not been true in my experience.
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You need a big ego to be an artist.
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My wife never throws anything at me that I can't handle.
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I can feel it in my bones that no matter what we do, even if we do not do anything, the revolutionary government of Madame Cory Aquino will collapse.
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I need something to do when I'm not working, or I crawl up the walls. So I've just taken up kung fu. I was looking for some kind of calming, relaxing activity. I tried yoga, but it wasn't really me.
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Daring is not safe against daring men.
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There are those people that eat to live and those that live to eat. I am of the latter, as many of you already know. To me, eating is an adventure.
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I work in areas related to child protection and family safety, women's empowerment, the creation of opportunities for youth, and culture and tourism. Daunting? Yes. Impossible? No. In fact, such challenges energize me.
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When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen.
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We should have an inclusive growth model in India. Agro-interest is also as important as industrial interest.
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I don't think I will go for an arranged marriage, but I am not against arranged marriages.
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High school golf, college golf and the decade that followed all come back to me now as one big raucous, goofy gangsome.
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I worked as a teacher in the public school system in New York City for several years, and I was a victim of the layoffs, you know, in the mid-'70s. And then I worked as a sales engineer for a company in New Jersey that was selling industrial filtration equipment.
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When I started out playing chess as a kid I thought I should be world champion. As a kid you have no idea what that means and you only sort of picture it. It is hard to imagine that I waited all those years and it happened in a late stage of my career.
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It's been a concern of mine for years that the mainstream media coverage of culture and politics takes place in two nodes, Washington and New York, and yet all the voting goes on somewhere else.
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I don't think there's any information to be gotten from television.
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Taking a backseat role is not in my nature.
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The last thing I think I am is perfect. I'm just trying to do the best job I can. I'm trying to be the best father I can to my kids. I'm trying to do the best job I can running my business.
