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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I never had plastic surgery. I had a nose procedure done because I had to. I had no cartilage in my nose; I have a piece of cartilage from my ear put into my nose. I had a medical procedure done. I have no plastic in my nose.
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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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It's a lot easier to stay idealistic if you don't sign two to five next-of-kin letters every day.
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The first job I got was a production of 'Fame - the Musical,' at the North Shore Music Theatre in Beverly, Massachusetts, and it got me my Equity card, too. I waited 12 hours to be seen for it, though!
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'They Don't Care About Us' by Michael Jackson - This song makes me want to dance, and I fell in love with it watching 'This Is It' with my kids.
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When I went to Africa, I was reduced to floods of tears every day.
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A contented mind is the best source for trouble.
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Last year, in the year 2008, it just became normal to watch great American institutions crumble, almost dissolve like sand.
