George Packer Quotes
Amazon's identity and goals are never clear and always fluid, which makes the company destabilizing and intimidating.
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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
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Romantic love can be terrifying. We experience another human being as enormously important to us. So there is surrender - not a surrender to the other person so much as to our feeling for the other person. What is the obstacle? The possibility of loss.
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It was inevitable at some point that I would bump into one of my father's plays. The reality of the situation is that I'm a jobbing actor, and any actor would give their eye-teeth to have one of those roles. It's a no-brainer! I'm pleased the stars have aligned around 'Arcadia.'
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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You don't have to be dowdy to be a Christian.
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You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.
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My identity comprises of more than just my faith. I am a proud Muslim, but I am also a liberal, a Briton, a Pakistani, a Londoner, a father, a product of the globalised world who speaks English, Arabic and Urdu.
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History is laden with belligerent leaders using humanitarian rhetoric to mask geopolitical aims. History also shows how often ill-informed moralism has led to foreign entanglements that do more harm than good.
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One SF prediction that I would like very much to see: Get solar collectors launched to beam energy back home, and get away from fossil fuels.
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Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
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I don't think limits.
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When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen.
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We are in a bit of a policy box and it's going to require us being willing to give up one of the two, which is it's okay to take on more deficits but lets put in some massive spending. Alternatively to say, 'we're going to go through structural unemployment for a while because we want to address deficits.'
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Survival can be summed up in three words - never give up. That's the heart of it really. Just keep trying.
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I envy the sensibility in Europe, appreciating beauty in women as they age. I'm going to go that way. I might dye my gray hair for a bit, but beyond that the buck stops. I'm not having any work done.
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I'm kind of a pop culture stew, you know.
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A relationship is like another job, you know, you have to work at it all the time.
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Everyone wants to turn on their TV and have a break from their normal day.
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You fight dandelions all week-end, and late Monday afternoon there they are, pert as all get out, in full and gorgeous bloom, pretty as can be, thriving as only dandelions can in the face of adversity.
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I have a theatrical temperament. I'm not interested in the middle road - maybe because everyone's on it. Rationality, reasonableness bewilder me.
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When marketers influence habits, they influence peoples' self-identity. And so when a group or company does something that doesn't correspond to our core values, it feels like a betrayal.
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New York is a passionate city. They want a winner. They deserve a winner. I think we did an outstanding job of bringing it back.
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Amazon's identity and goals are never clear and always fluid, which makes the company destabilizing and intimidating.
