George Packer Quotes
What the Web has never figured out is how to pay for reporting, which, with the collapse of print newspapers, is in desperately short supply, and without which even the most prolific commenters will someday run out of things to say.
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I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.
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When it comes to production and the overall sound, I don't really have a lot of intentions with it. I start off with melody and a lyrical idea, and then build off of that story.
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A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.
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'Drive' is a genre piece, and a lot of times we don't get really sophisticated genre films.
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It is necessary to bear in mind that Scripture only teaches the chief points of those true principles which lead to the true perfection of man, and only demands in general terms faith in them.
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Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere.
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Using a forecasting company is like going to a fortune-teller. If you believe the company and the color does not sell, who do you blame? The forecasters? No, you blame yourself.
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When I do work, I feel the same sort of urgency as I ever did. If I didn't feel that, I don't think I would wish to be doing it. I wouldn't really see the point.
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Intolerance is alien to Hinduism.
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God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.
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I thought I'd be edgy and dye my hair red. And I dyed my hair, like, Jessica Rabbit red. It kind of allowed me to have this whole new confidence and this whole new swagger and this whole new sense of self. It kind of brought out the inner rock star in me. I had never dyed my hair like that, and no one forgot me after that.
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I know that Bush, for political reasons, is going to nominate a minority, a Hispanic man or someone where it will be harder for people on the progressive side to oppose and split some of the traditionally progressive or democratic constituents.
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I might not be very smart, but I surround myself with smart people.
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Dad decided not to vote for Donner after all. He didn’t vote for anyone. He said politicians turned his stomach.
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I saw Len Hutton in his prime,Another time, another time.
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Things that are separate shall be united and acquire such virtue that they will restore to man his lost memory.
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And the body of a dead youthLies stretched upon the groundUpon the filthy pavementsNo reason can be foundBlack day in July
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On my off day, I really want to just lay in bed.
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Many of the earmark request forms are actually filled out by lobbyists and then just turned in by the member's staff to the appropriations committee.
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I went out there to play my game for the fun of it and never based my career around records.
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When I was a kid, people people would always say, 'Oh you look like Chilli from TLC.' It wasn't until I did 'Akeelah and the Bee' that people started saying I looked like Angela Bassett, but before then it was Chilli.
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You know, one of the biggest thrills I have is when famous people recognize me from Taxi.
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If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.
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What the Web has never figured out is how to pay for reporting, which, with the collapse of print newspapers, is in desperately short supply, and without which even the most prolific commenters will someday run out of things to say.
