George Packer Quotes
The Senate was an odd compromise between the founders and the early leaders of the republic who wanted a single house which was based on popular sovereignty representing the people and those founders who wanted two houses, the upper house, the Senate, being the more aristocratic.
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At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.
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Though many corporations honor commitments to reduce dangerous pollution, some cut corners and cheat. The marketplace doesn't always have mechanisms to correct bad actors.
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I enjoy my life, I love track, I'm set for life financially.
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The classic, 'Romeo and Juliet,' for me, is the iconic story of young love.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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I've grown up playing for some incredible coaches, and I don't think anybody's ever been as fortunate as I have in terms of the people I've been allowed to play under, coach under, or be involved with.
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I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
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While I was busy hating Vegas, and hiding from Vegas, a funny thing happened. I grew to love Vegas.
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I was always quite good with accents - I always had quite a good ear - so from the age of about 13, I used to do a lot of voiceover and dubbing for foreign films.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.
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Singing is a prayer to me.
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Cricket, the whole thing, playing, watching, being part of the Gaieties, has been a central feature of my life.
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Each time I told them I didn't kill my wife.
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When you feel totally alone in your thoughts and feelings, there's someone out there who is going through what you went through, even if it's the strangest, weirdest thing you could think of.
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When I became a mature woman, I put both feet firmly on the side of maturity.
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When I was diagnosed with cancer, like so many other people, my life changed forever.
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I weighed 25 stone, and I didn't stand nine feet tall, so the weight didn't sit well on me. As big as a house? No. I was as big as an estate.
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I believe all universities should at least offer courses in politics and policy implementation.
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I am a big fan of movies that don't take themselves too seriously. You know you won't change the world, but have fun. Movies like 'Butch Cassidy' I enjoyed tremendously, but it didn't alter my opinion of the world.
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The Senate was an odd compromise between the founders and the early leaders of the republic who wanted a single house which was based on popular sovereignty representing the people and those founders who wanted two houses, the upper house, the Senate, being the more aristocratic.
