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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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 may be paralyzed from the waist down, but unlike Gray Davis, I'm not paralyzed from the neck up.
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I mean, George Bush is a man of prayer. He talks to the lord. He tries to get his direction from the lord.
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In Endless Quest books, you start the plot, and the character has to make choices. Then you have to write one choice over here, one choice over there. The author might get one or two choices out.
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The purpose of a system is what it does. There is after all, no point in claiming that the purpose of a system is to do what it constantly fails to do.
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Almost every golden age of geo-cultural domains has been characterised by good governance, exchanges, borrowing, innovation and the adaptation of earlier contributions to forms of knowledge, and rationalism.
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Just a threat of a boycott has got the Russians spinning.
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I think President Barack Obama has been an extraordinarily successful president, and that this period will record that with a bunch of exclamation points. But obviously not everybody thinks that.
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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.
