George Packer Quotes
I am never going to be able to rest easy in having established a posthumous connection to my father. I'll always be groping for what I can't have.
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It's like driving your car. If you drive too fast on the highway, you will topple, so you better maintain your speed. Life is similar to that, and that's the way you have to control your head.
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The psychology of women hitherto actually represents a deposit of the desires and disappointments of men.
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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
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Success is really about your mindset.
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There are some tremendous actors in the U.K. who have been knighted, and I've spent much of my life admiring many of them, like Laurence Olivier. So it's very flattering to be in their company.
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Open-minded tech tinkerers may still prefer traditional PCs for work because they allow much more customization than, say, an iPad.
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I never edit the songs that come out. And they tend to come out as a whole. The closest thing I have ever done to editing them is just cutting out a verse, but never rewriting lyrics.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.
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Nobody has ever convinced me that ancient aliens have visited Earth. Not even close.
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Maybe I'm just purely lucky. If I've come up against obstacles I've always found another way around it.
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The only show my mother could afford to take me to when I was growing up was 'Cats', for my birthday.
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George McGovern - and I campaigned very hard for his election - was not, in the summer of 1971, a strong feminist ally. But he did come around.
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It's always been a lie that it's difficult to make films.
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The girls want to see the rips on your stomach - they like that.
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It may be that the books that were best liked in your lifetime are not the ones that are best liked 100 years later.
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I have a very big family and a lot of friends, and buying presents is one of my favorite things to do.
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The reporter wrote with the hope that he would get a by-line in the Times, a testimony to his being alive on that day and all the tomorrows of microfilm.
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I avoid processed food.
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It's human nature to not say everything that's on your mind at the time you think it. Because we fear saying something that people will laugh at, people will think is dumb. We're afraid of being embarrassed.
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The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.
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If we are to ensure that healthcare remains affordable and widely available for future generations, we need to radically rethink how we provide and manage it - in collaboration with key health system partners - and apply the technology that can help achieve these changes.
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I am never going to be able to rest easy in having established a posthumous connection to my father. I'll always be groping for what I can't have.
