George Packer Quotes
Discerning the legal difference between what WikiLeaks did and what news organizations do is difficult and would set a terrible precedent.
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I look back on some of my outfits, and I'm like: 'Why did I wear that? Where are my friends and why didn't they tell me not to leave the house?' If they had, I probably would've said, 'You don't know what you're talking about. This looks amazing.'
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I respect Lady Gaga very much.
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Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you know about.
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Hard work is not why I have been successful as a model.
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Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it.
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Money is always on its way somewhere. What you do with it while it is in your keeping and the direction you send it in say much about you. Your treatment of and respect for money, how you make it, and how you spend it, reflect your character.
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Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.
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I basically have my life today as a result of what I did as a child. What did I miss out on? Yeah, I missed not hanging out at shopping malls, I guess, but that is not a big deal because you don't get a medal for that.
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As you know, I was a solo singer, something I just got very much used to. Turns out I'm quite enjoying being in a band!
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Flowers are happy things.
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The Syrians are trying to say that the Lebanese are not capable of ruling themselves.
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In the 1990s, the United States offered to help North Korea with its energy needs if it gave up its nuclear weapons programme.
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As a driver, you always dream of winning a F1 race, and to win so early on in my career was very special.
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The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years.
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Don't strive to be perfect. Strive for excellence.
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As a person of color from the South, San Francisco was the first city that really made me feel like an other.
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I don't distinguish between men and women. This is irrelevant to me, and I don't think in these terms.
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I've been having meetings with people, just everywhere in the world, and it's like, 'Hey, really love you to work with me, send me some ideas.' That's the crazy part.
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A visual always brings a first impression. But if there's going to be a first impression, I might as well use it to control the story. So why not do something like throw a mask on?
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I remember unbelievable tension in our home. There were lots of meetings, lots of worries. I remember my father told me I had to be careful of what I said on the phone because it was tapped. And I remember how his friends adored and revered him.
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It's hard not to take it personally when being wait-listed, passed over for a promotion, or losing a client to a competitor. But while feeling aggrieved may be an understandable reaction, it's not productive - it's not a good use of the experience.
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The fact is there should not be any mercury in any vaccine.
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Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.
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Discerning the legal difference between what WikiLeaks did and what news organizations do is difficult and would set a terrible precedent.
