George Packer Quotes

Afghanistan can't police its borders, and its neighbors give sanctuary and assistance to insurgents.

George Packer

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• People are always angry at America. They're absolutely certain that America either caused their problems or is deliberately not fixing their problems. But the anger is always directed at America and never at Americans.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • America
  • Angry

• Well you know it's dangerous in politics, because especially in the Philippines there's a lot of killing in politics.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • You
  • Know
  • Politics

• I've been very excited to have children for a long time. It definitely added an interesting twist to the night we screened 'Lyle' at Outfest, and I got up to do the Q&A, and I had this huge belly no one was expecting. It creeped everybody out in the best way.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Long
  • Words
  • Beginning

• Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.

  

  Jack Adams
  • Pretty
  • Well
  • Everybody

• I am a classic Star Trek fanatic. When I was a kid, my mom and I used to go to conventions.

  

  Rachel Cohn
  • Conventions
  • Fanatic
  • Star Trek

• You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Life
  • You
  • Attitude

• I'll always be American in my world view and allegiance. American in the naive way I go to other countries and tell them how they should treat their poor or clean their water.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • World
  • American
  • Water

• I felt disconnected from the decisions made in Washington and, to be honest, really didn't think my vote mattered because I didn't have a direct line of sight from my vote to a result.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Think
  • Decisions
  • Vote

• The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice.

  

  Harold Rosenberg
  • Practice
  • Values

• I've never personally been anorexic.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Never
  • Been
  • Personally

• Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Food
  • New
  • Equality

• The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Black
  • Process
  • Form

• When people say, 'How did you start in comedy,' I say my family was kidnapped by ninjas when I was very young, and to get them released I had to do a killer five-minute set. And even after I did that, you know, I started doing comedy under tough circumstances, I still kept at it because I enjoyed it.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • People
  • Family
  • Comedy

• I think some cases are different than others, but all of the child actors that I have encountered, as well as myself, are real kids. I mean we do all the things that kids do. We're normal. We just like to do different things. We like to act and make people feel happy or sad, but we're 'real' people.

  

  Mackenzie Foy
  • People
  • Different
  • Real

• When I did 'Frankenstein,' the record company said, 'Now you can do 'Dracula' and 'Wolf Man' and we'll call the whole thing Monster Rock!' and I said, 'No, that's not going to happen, I'm not going to do that.' I kind of enjoy defying categorization. I love music in and of itself. I love the beauty of harmony and rhythm.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Music
  • Enjoy
  • Beauty

• I enjoy baseball more than anything and would like to be involved with it forever, but the reality is your survival is determined by how well you compete, not by your fondness for the game.

  

  Sadaharu Oh
  • Game
  • Reality
  • Forever

• He's the bafflement of Scotland Yard, the Flying Squad's despair: For when they reach the scene of crime - Macavity's not there!

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Flying
  • Squad

• Whether Iranians are drinking wine in the evening or painting something "offensive," they choose not to dwell on the fact that they could receive some seventh-century punishment. Laws are inconsistently enforced, and you can usually pay off police to look the other way.

  

  Azadeh Moaveni
  • Police
  • Laws
  • Punishment

• Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.

  

  Baldwin Spencer
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Years

• I think it's harder than ever to be an artist. I think that you end up, especially as a middle-aged person, you pay such big consequences for saying, 'I'm just going to devote my life to making art,' or 'I'm going to devote my life to writing novels.' You end up with no resources.

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • Life
  • Up
  • Writing

• Zen is influenced by Daoism, which is not so much a nature-religion in the animistic sense as a nature-philosophy in a cosmic sense.

  

  Quentin S. Crisp
  • Nature

• You know when you hear a lyric and you can tell that the person means it? That is really hard; that is so much harder than it seems: to find the topics that you're passionate about and have it come across as like, 'Yeah, that guy needed to sing that song.'

  

  Andy Grammer
  • Guy
  • Song
  • Lyric

• Afghanistan can't police its borders, and its neighbors give sanctuary and assistance to insurgents.

  

  George Packer
  • Police