George Packer Quotes
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Liars do look you in the eye. They do not always stutter, stammer, blush or fidget.
Pamela Meyer -
Washington is a bubble, and there is nothing more powerful than the conservative grassroots when we are engaged and letting our voice be heard.
Ted Cruz -
The vast concourse of people who had assembled to witness the triumphant arrival of the successful travellers was of the lowest orders of mechanics and artisans, among whom great distress and a dangerous spirit of discontent with the government at that time prevailed.
Fanny Kemble -
Human beings are natural mimickers. The more you're conscious of the other side's posture, mannerisms, and word choices - and the more you subtly reflect those back - the more accurate you'll be at taking their perspective.
Dan Pink -
I don't think anyone has the right to intrude in your life, but they do. I would like people to separate the actress and the woman.
Ingrid Bergman -
I care so passionately about improving the quality of life for women and girls, not just here in the United States, but internationally as well. I am a single mom and I raised a daughter who is now a young adult.
Valerie Jarrett
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I'm really not interested in other people's opinions, because I think frankly most of those opinions are either misinformed and adding to this endless ball of hot air we have in our society where everyone thinks their opinion is valuable and sacred and what counts.
H. G. Bissinger -
I try to stay on a pretty normal schedule of nine-to-five.
Washed Out -
For me especially, I travel a lot, and with the weather change and everything, my skin gets dehydrated very fast.
Gal Gadot -
I like soundtracks and I like film.
Adam Jones -
Inflation is an increase in the quantity of money without a corresponding increase in the demand for money, i.e., for cash holdings.
Ludwig von Mises -
You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute. You are avenged 1440 times a day.
Ambrose Bierce
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'I am not very clever about Americanisms - and I understand they change very quickly.'
Agatha Christie -
There is no part of me that is not of the gods!
Aleister Crowley -
Am I that fascinating to you, or are you just more bored than I imagined?
Alastair Reynolds -
When we were fighting communism, OK, they had mass murderers and gulags, but they were white men and they were sane. Now we're up against absolutely insane savages.
Ann Coulter -
We had a bubble in housing.
Alan Greenspan -
Winning doesn't always mean being first. Winning means you're doing better than you've ever done before.
Bonnie Blair
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If you can help guide somebody through a challenging moment because you've been there, that ends up becoming a great gift.
Christian Slater -
I'm Mexican and Kenyan at the same time. I've seen the quarrels over my nationality, but I'm Kenyan and Mexican at the same time. So again, I am Mexican-Kenyan, and I am fascinated by carne asada tacos.
Lupita Nyong'o -
Remember, the early '60s in London was something - which must have been like Berlin in the '30s when the arts flourished. You didn't have the differences in class, and so on.
Ken Adam -
Eroticism bubbles beneath the surface of every vampire story, but Anne Rice is a writer to make the pot boil.
Janet Maslin -
Americans almost never elect presidents on the basis of foreign policy.
George Packer