George Packer Quotes
The Princeton economist Alan Krueger has demonstrated that societies with higher levels of income inequality are societies with lower levels of social mobility.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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Nothing says, 'I pay attention to detail!' like footwear flattery from a boy.
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Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.
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I struggled for many, many years following 'Music and Lyrics' - I mean really struggled.
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In my entire life, any time I've ever lost something, I've gotten something even better going around the next corner. It's like one door closes and another door opens. As long as I can walk through the produce section in every grocery store in this country and eat the grapes that they're going to throw away, I know I can be fine.
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I became, suddenly, not just a Muslim in faith. I became a Muslim in politics. Somebody whose politics were pre-defined by one interpretation of Islam.
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The hardest thing for me is not to keep laughing. Jennifer particularly is like a clown.
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My parents aren't crazy conservative. They're actually pretty open-minded. But my grandparents are, and where I'm from, East Texas, is the Bible Belt.
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Ricky Martin is one of my idols in the industry.
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I believe that everybody has the right to view his or her own body as a palette. However, I think intellectuals should at least try to be role models.
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Science can improve lives in ways that are elegant in design and moving in practice.
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Being a visionary is a new profession, but it is really just a variant on fortunetelling, which may be the world's oldest. And its marketing appeal is similar - people will pay for reassurance about the unknown.
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The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.
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Here is the root of all romanticism: that man, the individual, is an infinite reservoir of possibilities, and if you can so rearrange society by the destruction of oppressive order, then these possibilities will have a chance, and you will get Progress.
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America is interested in re-arranging the region as it sees fit.
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I started writing in my 20s. I just wanted to write, but I didn't have anything to write about, so in the beginning, I wrote entertainments - mainly murder mysteries.
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'The programmers have a saying, you know? ‘If we understand how we do it, it isn’t artificial intelligence anymore.’'
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Our challenge isn't that we can't be motivated. It's not that we aren't smart, excitable, or that we lack passion - what we don't have is the ability to sustain motivation over time.
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If the British public were shown slavery in their own society seen through the eyes of the enslaved, they would get a much better understanding.
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Being on stage a lot is quite physical.
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The Princeton economist Alan Krueger has demonstrated that societies with higher levels of income inequality are societies with lower levels of social mobility.
