George Packer Quotes
No-one can say when the unwinding began, when the coil that held America together in its secure and sometime shifting grip first gave way.
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I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.
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Like brown rice, black rice is unmilled, and it is the dark outer husk that makes it so nutty and chewy. It's also why it takes longer to cook than many other rices.
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Throughout U.S. history, national crises have been used to suspend constitutional protections and attack basic rights. After the Civil War, with the nation in crisis, the promise of 40 acres and a mule to freed slaves was promptly betrayed.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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I'm very lucky to be in projects that have such skilled writing in them.
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One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.
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My first name, with the rare two-r spelling, came from a sportswriter named Garry Schumacher. My parents didn't know him personally, but my mother liked the spelling.
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I thought it was quite vain to say, I want to be a model.
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You're able to do things in novels: introduce subplots, other characters, thematic layers and so on, in a way that you simply can't in a movie. A movie really has to choose its battles.
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Smart people tend to know what is happening in a group situation and how to deal with others in the most effective way. They ask good questions, listen to what others are saying, and stay engaged in conversations intently.
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I can't solve the poverty problem, but there are things you can do to mitigate its effects on kids.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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I really haven't liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit by a couple of good guides.
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In boxing, it's one fight, so it's easier to build up rivalries, but everyone's got huge respect for each other.
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I can't design anything unless I'm excited by it, meaning I have an urge to wear it.
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A lovely nook of forest scenery, or a grand rock, like a beautiful woman, depends for much of its attractiveness upon the attendance sense of freedom from whatever is low; upon a sense of purity and of romance.
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If Trump keeps learning, he could become a big asset. He will shatter the traditional patterns.
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Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart.
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You peasant swain! You whoreson malt-horse drudge!
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The philosophy of friendship has definitely paid off, because after all the highs and lows we’re still sticking together and we haven’t lost the passion for what we’re doing. In the Seventies, there were few changes, then we had this line-up with Herman Rarebell and Francis Buchholz for almost twenty years.
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Your appearance shouldn't define who you are, and that's what I like, the contrast between people looking like the opposite of what they truly are deep inside.
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No-one can say when the unwinding began, when the coil that held America together in its secure and sometime shifting grip first gave way.
