George Packer Quotes
The phrase 'change the world' is tossed around Silicon Valley conversations and business plans as freely as talk of 'early-stage investing' and 'beta tests.'
George Packer
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How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!
Edmund Waller
In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs.
Wayne Allard
In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.
Maira Kalman
We're going to have shortages and prices are going to go up. Gasoline is going to be extremely tight for us.
T. Boone Pickens
All too often, government's response to social breakdown has been a classic case of 'patching' - a case of handing money out, containing problems and limiting the damage but, in doing so, supporting - even reinforcing - dysfunctional behaviour.
Iain Duncan Smith
No one can end it, but incidents of corruption can be reduced.
Kapil Sibal
No, I didn't work it out upside down, I never turned it around.
H. R. Giger
Everybody feels up sometimes, they feel down sometimes, sometimes they feel sideways, sometimes they feel weird. And the beauty of music is you can express all those different feelings in all the different songs you write. And hopefully, people can identify with those.
Isaac Hanson
Hanson
Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training.
Harrison Salisbury
My mother had an illegal abortion in 1960, which was the year the birth control pill came out, but I guess a little late for her, but - and I never knew. I found out when my father, after her death, got her FBI file.
Katha Pollitt
I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
Walt Disney
I'm a Sikh; it's part of my religious tradition to never cut my hair and keep it wrapped in a turban.
Waris Ahluwalia
I've never seen a movie director who was happier to be directing a movie than Dave [Mamet]. His sets, everyone who's ever been involved with one of them will tell you of the funnest, funniest sets you can be on.
Clark Gregg
He swayed in the strong wind that pressed against his back. He swayed forward, on the brink of the high cliff. And his right foot, his enormous iron right foot, lifted-up, out, into space, and the Iron Man stepped forward, off the cliff, into nothingness.
Ted Hughes
You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.
Luc de Clapiers
Right now were in the middle of a cultural war between the Muslims and the Western world. The politicians get in the way, but if you put two people together in a room, they can talk it out and work it out, just like Anna and the King.
Sandy Duncan
I'm not a big cook at all, but anything easy and quick, like pasta, I'm up to. My husband cooks for me because he finds cooking relaxing.
Darcey Bussell
The phrase 'change the world' is tossed around Silicon Valley conversations and business plans as freely as talk of 'early-stage investing' and 'beta tests.'
George Packer
