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.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Years
  • Actor
  • Over

• I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Book
  • Down
  • Now

• You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Know

• Nothing says, 'I pay attention to detail!' like footwear flattery from a boy.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Attention
  • Boy
  • Flattery

• Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Kind
  • Racing
  • Birds

• I struggled for many, many years following 'Music and Lyrics' - I mean really struggled.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Music
  • Mean
  • Years

• 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.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• 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.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Faith
  • Politics
  • Islam

• The hardest thing for me is not to keep laughing. Jennifer particularly is like a clown.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Like
  • Thing
  • Laughing

• 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.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Pretty
  • Parents
  • Crazy

• Science can improve lives in ways that are elegant in design and moving in practice.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • Science
  • Moving
  • Practice

• 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.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • World
  • May

• 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.

  

  T. E. Hulme
  • Society
  • Man
  • Progress

• The problem is that in our country, they make it almost impossible for politicians to win anything. In England it's easier to win a libel suit.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Country
  • Problem
  • Win

• Differences in homeownership rates remain the prime driver of the nation's racial wealth gap.

  

  Matthew Desmond

• If you're in the White House, it's your house, and you can invite whatever friend you want.

  

  Chevy Chase
  • House
  • Friend

• I couldn't possibly have any regrets, because I've been very lucky, I've been celebrated, and I've survived. I couldn't have one single regret. That would be absurd.

  

  Don McCullin
  • Single
  • Regret

• My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything - even if you have no clue what you're doing.

  

  Jessica Alba

• I think women's relationships with other women are very complicated and depend on their relationships with their mothers. Mine was fraught with problems. So I didn't necessarily trust women for a long time.

  

  Dawn Steel
  • Time
  • Long
  • Women

• Subconciously, the things you listen to and you believe in, those things are going to come out, you know what I mean? I think you take that and make it your sound; that's what I do when I'm putting together genres of music.

  

  Daystar Peterson
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Together

• The view that honesty is something, and even a virtue, belongs, it is true, to those private opinions which are forbidden in this age of public opinions.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Honesty
  • View
  • Private Opinion

• The Princeton economist Alan Krueger has demonstrated that societies with higher levels of income inequality are societies with lower levels of social mobility.

  

  George Packer