George Packer Quotes
Last year, in the year 2008, it just became normal to watch great American institutions crumble, almost dissolve like sand.
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It is essential to link enterprises on the basis of objective laws of a socialist economy and legal system.
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I was lucky enough to go home and raise our babies.
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For 10 days after the Olympics, I couldn't go back to my house because people were sitting outside waiting to take my photo. That was a bit rubbish. At first I was open: 'Yeah, of course you can take a photo...' but after a while, it got to the point where I thought, 'Whoa, I don't like this attention anymore.'
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It's nice to know about something as soon as it happens, and obviously a newspaper can't provide that.
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The cast of 'Lemonade Mouth' was picked so perfectly. A lot of people see us as a band on camera, but not a lot of people know that Lemonade Mouth was a band off-camera, too.
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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Berlusconi is a genius in communication. Otherwise, he would never have become so rich.
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I know I said I wanted to live forever and I would never be bored, but the reality is, it's probably kind of sad to live forever if you're the only one sticking around.
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I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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I'm on this diet where you're supposed to eat only fish and meat.
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be like.
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Opening doors for us, helping us with our jackets and chairs - we love all that.
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For those who turn to literary biography for salacious details, 'Flannery' will disappoint. It is the biography of someone who had very little chance to live in the conventional sense, to experience events.
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The actors in 'Eight Men Out' really know how to play, and the background athletes are all professionals.
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I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.
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Perhaps the greatest utopia would be if we could all realize that no utopia is possible; no place to run, no place to hide, just take care of business here and now.
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Feeling has as much to say as the words do. You can have the greatest words in the world and if they're not believable, they don't strike a chord and they're not said convincingly, it's not a great song.
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I think it's pretty well established that great schools are predicated on great faculty. That is not a Wisconsin market; that is a worldwide market.
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I am trying my best to strike a balance. How many hours a day can I work? I work for 12-15 hours a day; it gets very strenuous. I balance between Telugu, Tamil, and Hindi.
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I always follow the same idea: Start small and disrupt to create something big.
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What the actor is in private life, he is to a large extent on the stage, because he cannot conceal himself and his true personality from his audience.
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Last year, in the year 2008, it just became normal to watch great American institutions crumble, almost dissolve like sand.
