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.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Great
  • Book

• 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.

  

  Verite
  • Story
  • Start
  • Sound

• A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.

  

  Mae West
  • Up
  • Tied
  • Likely

• 'Drive' is a genre piece, and a lot of times we don't get really sophisticated genre films.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Times
  • Drive
  • Sophisticated

• 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.

  

  Maimonides
  • Mind
  • True
  • Man

• Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • Energy
  • Concept
  • Anywhere

• 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.

  

  Tadashi Shoji
  • Believe
  • Color
  • Yourself

• 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.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Work
  • Wish
  • Doing

• Intolerance is alien to Hinduism.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Alien
  • Hinduism
  • Intolerance

• God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.

  

  Dallas Willard
  • God
  • May
  • Character

• 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.

  

  Candice Accola
  • Rock
  • Star
  • Hair

• 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.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • People
  • Man
  • Political

• I might not be very smart, but I surround myself with smart people.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • People
  • Myself
  • Smart

• Dad decided not to vote for Donner after all. He didn’t vote for anyone. He said politicians turned his stomach.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Dad

• I saw Len Hutton in his prime,Another time, another time.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Time

• Things that are separate shall be united and acquire such virtue that they will restore to man his lost memory.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Lost

• And the body of a dead youthLies stretched upon the groundUpon the filthy pavementsNo reason can be foundBlack day in July

  

  Gordon Lightfoot

• On my off day, I really want to just lay in bed.

  

  Kali Uchis

• I love watching Anthony Kim play, but I'm not a fan of the way he grips down a good two inches on his full-swing shots. Choking down lightens the club's swingweight and effectively makes the shaft stiffer.

  

  Lee Trevino
  • Good

• It takes a great deal of strong personality to survive the art school training. Hard nuts that the art schools can't crack and devour get through and become artists.

  

  John French Sloan
  • Great
  • School
  • Art

• A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • People
  • Up
  • Painting

• I think, in reading a few sentences of text, you can just tell the tone, and that's something I love in prose writers but in lyricists as well.

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
  • Reading
  • Text

• Lean into your curiosity about any issue, and there will likely be people to share a little bit more of their knowledge and insight and give you ideas on how to make change.

  

  Opal Tometi
  • People
  • Knowledge
  • Curiosity

• 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.

  

  George Packer