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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The SAS is the most elite of the special forces in the world. They are not people who go out and advertise; they keep it inside. They don't want anybody to know about them.
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I only got interested in radio once I talked my way into an internship at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 1978, never having heard the network on the air.
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I'm very lucky to be in projects that have such skilled writing in them.
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The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.
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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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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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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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And you know the reason I really love the stars is that we cannot hurt them. We can't burn them or melt them or make them overflow. We can't flood them or blow them up or turn them out. But we are reaching for them. We are reaching for them.
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I get hired to hack into computers now and sometimes it's actually easier than it was years ago.
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I think writers are observers and watchers. We always have our ears open and eyes open, so I might see something in everyday life that inspires me. And I think that's probably more than anything else. Everyday life is where I get my inspiration.
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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
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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.
