George Packer Quotes
The base of the party, the middle-aged white working class, has suffered at least as much as any demographic group because of globalization, low-wage immigrant labor, and free trade. Trump sensed the rage that flared from this pain and made it the fuel of his campaign.
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Justice is never given; it is exacted.
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I dread shooting with animals. I hope I never get a script with snakes.
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The man for me is the cherry on the pie. But I'm the pie and my pie is good all by itself. Even if I don't have a cherry.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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I would love to see as many of the black players as possible in today's Major League Baseball make every effort to go to the Negro Leagues Museum and get a first-hand view of how it all started.
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You can ask me anything you like about my work, but I'll never talk about myself.
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I'm an artist at heart.
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I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.
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I've been able to work with great directors in Israel.
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Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms.
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One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.
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Everyone thinks their family is the craziest family in the world. Like, 'My God, my family's crazy!'
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I've tried to show in my most recent book, the 'Irresistible Fairytale', that in order to talk about any genre, particularly what we call simple genre - a myth, a legend, an anecdote, a tall tale, and so on - we really have to understand something about the origin of stories all together.
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I'm just the opposite of a lot of photographers who want everything to be really, really sharp. And they're always, you know, stopping it down to F64.
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Just as soaps were very pivotal in the transition from radio to television, they will be right in the thick of things again in the transition from television to the Internet. Exciting news.
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It's all about sound. It's that simple.
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I think the people who probably have it the best are the people on cable like on 'Entourage', 'the Sopranos', etc. who have 13 episodes per season and breaks to do films and theatre. I think that's the most ideal life.
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What we have as artists is the immortalization opportunity that others don't have, because our work is lasting; it's there forever to view.
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We may yet work up to some serious shooting war, or maybe some acts of urban genocide committed with rogue nuclear weapons. But if that were the case, why would we call that '9/11'? If Washington disappeared in a mushroom cloud, we'd give that huge event a different name.
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So just to be clear, I'm not going to sign any package that somehow prevents the top rate from going up for folks at the top 2 percent.
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All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.
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Stable growth ensures employment.
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She wanted God to make sense. He doesn't. He will make no more sense to me than I will make sense to an ant.
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The base of the party, the middle-aged white working class, has suffered at least as much as any demographic group because of globalization, low-wage immigrant labor, and free trade. Trump sensed the rage that flared from this pain and made it the fuel of his campaign.
