George Packer Quotes
Every movement, to stay alive - a very difficult thing to do historically - has to find a way to harness that initial surge of emotion and turn it to the hard, steady, un-sexy work of recruiting new members, strategizing, negotiating with those in power, keeping itself going.George Packer
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With me serving as the president, we filed a $3-million lawsuit against the league and its member clubs in an attempt to win increased pension benefits and a larger share Of television revenue.
Ted Lindsay -
Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.
Olivia Colman -
I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!
Danai Gurira -
For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.
Pankaj Mishra -
I like egg white omelets with veggies, or oatmeal with almonds and fruit.
Vanessa Hudgens -
You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
A. R. Ammons
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I'm not courting labor. I come from a labor background. To me, it's just intuitive.
Gavin Newsom -
Barack Obama is more irritating than the other nuisances on the Left.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Sometimes, America, when something's too bad, we don't want to look at it. We want to turn our head.
Sam Childers -
I am one of maybe three people in the world who knows anything about Robert W. Chambers.
S. T. Joshi -
I was in Nashville quite a bit when I shot 'Nashville,' and I was in Los Angeles when I shot in 'Supergirl'.
Laura Benanti -
I consider Apple to be very closed. Let's say you have a book business, and you are charging 5 to 7 percent gross margins; you can't exist in an Apple world because they want 30 percent, and they don't care that you only have 7 percent to play with.
Gabe Newell
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I like the work that I get to do.
Famke Janssen -
I suppose being quite young and being thrust quite dramatically into a large public arena skewered my vision of what it means to live and be a part of something.
Orlando Bloom -
The key to America's economic future is educating kids as early in their lives as we can.
J. B. Pritzker -
It's common in rural Ireland to pick up a nickname that relates to an animal, bird, or a spider. Mine became 'scorpion' because I fought back, and scorpions are docile creatures until pushed too far.
Walter O'Brien -
It's interesting to see how some of the womenswear designers that we have long worked with at Net-A-Porter are developing menswear collections - Christopher Kane, Jonathan Saunders and Richard Nicoll.
Natalie Massenet -
New Orleans lives by the water and fights it, a sand castle set on a sponge nine feet below sea level, where people made music from heartache, named their drinks for hurricanes and joked that one day you'd be able to tour the city by gondola.
Nancy Gibbs
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I like to think of myself as a people person.
Henry Olusegun Adeola Samuel -
I think that it's a good thing that you want to be part of making the world a better place, including between nine and five.
Jason Kander -
I'd much rather play Batman's cousin than Batman. That's more of my speed.
Alan Tudyk -
Regardless of who wins, an election should be a time for optimism and fresh approaches.
Gary Johnson -
Without humility there can be no humanity.
John Buchan -
Every movement, to stay alive - a very difficult thing to do historically - has to find a way to harness that initial surge of emotion and turn it to the hard, steady, un-sexy work of recruiting new members, strategizing, negotiating with those in power, keeping itself going.
George Packer