George Packer Quotes
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I am a perfectly normal woman. If what we do is storytelling and represent people that we see all day and every day, well, we do not see supermodels all day and every day.
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When you're a teenager, everything seems like the end of the world, and I don't think that's necessarily a silly thing. You're waking up and becoming aware that the world has problems and those problems affect you, whereas when you're young they don't seem to affect you that much even if you're aware of them.
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The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.
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I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
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Politics is not an exact science.
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Presidents make their hard decisions and then abide forever with their mistakes and regrets.
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Creating new jobs for Pennsylvanians continues to be my highest priority throughout the Commonwealth.
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I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restriction diet: The idea is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time, whether or not you want to, of course.
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Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
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In corporate culture, in sports culture, in the media, we honor those who win at all costs.
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Here's how I look at it: Life is full of challenges. Everybody has them. For some, it's health or family crises. I had a financial challenge.
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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
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I've learned a lot of tricks from working with a lot of great producers over the years, and I think I should write a book about it!
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I would love to work with someone like Kevin Spacey as he could pass on what I need to learn.
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One of the things I did to make myself feel better is that I kicked up my running even more. I knew that I had to stay active, that I had to keep living as if my life was actually going to unfold naturally because when you stop, when you freeze, and you think about it, that's when the demons come and can drag you down.
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Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That concept comes from the French Revolution.
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I don't know what it is about me, but I don't think of myself as sexy; I never have.
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To me, wrestling is therapy. No matter how bad my personal situation is, when I step into the ring, all my troubles disappear. My baggage stays in the back where it belongs.
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Ambition can creep as well as soar.
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I just fell into the job as a fashion editor at a teen magazine. I was there for two years, and I left there as a senior fashion editor at the age of 25.
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Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
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Before I came to Bollywood, lot of people told me that here things are not very professional, but I've had no such experience.
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Ambition, of course, is the politician's currency.
