George Packer Quotes
A religion is not just a set of texts but the living beliefs and practices of its adherents.
George Packer
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In an Indian kitchen, the focus is on getting the job or dish done right in whatever way possible; however, in a French kitchen there's a clear hierarchy, and a chef has to know where their skills are and not go beyond them.
Manish Dayal
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Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
Natalia Makarova
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The independence project in Catalonia is... a peaceful revolution, carried out in suit, shirt, and tie.
Carles Puigdemont
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I guess I'll go to my grave as the Dodger, but at least I've made my mark on show-business history.
Jack Wild
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I handle screenings and award ceremonies really badly.
Damien Chazelle
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I have always wanted an Olympic medal. I always wanted to see India's national flag going up at the podium.
Saina Nehwal
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The cookbooks and the writing in general have been a real bonus, but it's not something I've ever pursued... I've been lucky, I guess.
Padma Lakshmi
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A man´s taste is formed more by his culture, his profession, and the period in which he is young than by his race or politics.
A. J. Liebling
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Journalism is a good place for any writer to start - the retailing of fact is always a useful trade and can it help you learn to appreciate the declarative sentence. A young writer is easily tempted by the allusive and ethereal and ironic and reflective, but the declarative is at the bottom of most good writing.
Garrison Keillor
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Ambedkar was the first person to attain escape velocity and run away to US.
Rahul Gandhi
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If there's a particular problem that Perl is trying to solve, it's the basic fact that all programming languages suck. Sort of the concept of original sin, applied to programming languages.
Larry Wall
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When occasions present themselves, in which the interests of the people are at variance with their inclinations, it is the duty of the persons whom they have appointed to be the guardians of those interests, to withstand the temporary delusion, in order to give them time and opportunity for more cool and sedate reflection.
Alexander Hamilton
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For the faithful, the patient, the hermetically pure, all the important things in this world - not life and death, perhaps, which are merely words, but the important things - work out rather beautifully.
J. D. Salinger
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Saloons provide moments of genuine ecstasy - but only if your soul is at peace and the rest of your life bears contemplating. Otherwise, they are palaces of misery.
Wilfrid Sheed
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I was born in Patterson, New Jersey, and raised pretty much all around the country. My family tended to move from place to place following economic prospects and jobs and looking for new opportunities, so we changed schools, colleges, grade schools, high schools every 6 months to a year - depending on the breaks.
J. Michael Straczynski
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We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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All philosophers should end their days at Pythia’s feet. There is only one philosophy, that of unique moments.
Emil Cioran
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A religion is not just a set of texts but the living beliefs and practices of its adherents.
George Packer
