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.

  

  Samora Machel
  • Economy
  • Laws
  • Legal

• 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.'

  

  Laura Trott
  • People
  • House
  • Attention

• It's nice to know about something as soon as it happens, and obviously a newspaper can't provide that.

  

  Tabitha Soren
  • Know
  • Nice
  • Newspaper

• 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.

  

  Adam Hicks
  • People
  • Know
  • Band

• Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Diversity
  • Just
  • Big

• Berlusconi is a genius in communication. Otherwise, he would never have become so rich.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Communication
  • Genius
  • Rich

• 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.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Live
  • Reality
  • Forever

• 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?

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Funny

• Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Old
  • Italian
  • Saying

• I'm on this diet where you're supposed to eat only fish and meat.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • You
  • Diet
  • Fish

• If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Science
  • Technology
  • Fiction

• 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.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Work
  • English
  • Thought

• Opening doors for us, helping us with our jackets and chairs - we love all that.

  

  Rachel Shelley
  • Helping
  • Doors
  • Opening

• 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.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Live
  • Experience
  • Chance

• The actors in 'Eight Men Out' really know how to play, and the background athletes are all professionals.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Men
  • Know
  • Play

• 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.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Age
  • Lost
  • Myself

• 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.

  

  Jack Carroll
  • Business
  • Care
  • Greatest

• There are several peculiarities that I share with children which, like having no front teeth, are perhaps more acceptable in the very young, but which, for better or worse, seem to be a part of my makeup.

  

  Zilpha Keatley Snyder
  • Children
  • Better
  • Makeup

• It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Great
  • Measure
  • Task

• I agree with President Roosevelt, and generations since, that American seniors deserve better than poverty.

  

  Hank Johnson
  • American
  • Better
  • Poverty

• Playing gangsters is great. They usually dress you sharp. And you have a license to pretty much bully anybody. I mean, I wouldn't dare do that at home. My wife will give me a back hander.

  

  Alex Rocco
  • Great
  • Home
  • Pretty

• I grew up on North American sports teams as well as English soccer clubs.

  

  Ian Astbury The Cult
  • Up
  • American
  • Sports

• Processions, cavalcades, and all that fund of gay frippery, furnished out by tailors, barbers, and tire-women, mechanically influence the mind into veneration; an emperor in his nightcap would not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Women
  • Mind
  • Respect

• Last year, in the year 2008, it just became normal to watch great American institutions crumble, almost dissolve like sand.

  

  George Packer
  • Great
  • American