George Packer Quotes
The libertarian worship of individual freedom, and contempt for social convention, comes easiest to people who have never really had to grow up.
George Packer
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I wrote my first book when I was 15 years old. And my second book '1,2,3 Publish Me!' shows everyone how writing a book is done in just the three secret editing levels I discovered!
Manika
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For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.
Garrett Hedlund
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Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
Nancy Kress
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We pay taxes, and we help the city coffers.
Manuel Moroun
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
Yeardley Smith
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I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.
Karolina Kurkova
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I'm pretty obsessed with Stevie Nicks from her style to her voice. I like watching her on YouTube and her old performances, the way she moves and everything.
Florence Welch
Florence and the Machine
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I think that anything that has privileges have responsibility and all people that is clear about their responsibility has compromise.
Carlos Slim
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Well, you know, Thomas Jefferson, who was the author of the Declaration of Independence said he wouldn't have any atheists in his cabinet because atheists wouldn't swear an oath to God. That was Jefferson and we have never had any Muslims in the cabinet.
Pat Robertson
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In 1989, I was on Tiananmen Square with the students, living in their makeshift tents and joining their jubilant singing of the Internationale. In the two decades since, each time that I have gone back, visions from those days seem to return with increasing persistence.
Ma Jian
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Don't we all know why nerds do what they do? To get money, which leads to popularity, which leads to girls.
Zadie Smith
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I think the only safe medium are books, because people like to hold books in their hand.
H. G. Bissinger
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The sun shines on everybody. You've got to keep believing.
Dontrelle Willis
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I must represent France, and I want to be elegant, and I want the French people to be proud of me, you know.
Carla Bruni
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My family came from Spain in 1725, and if people want to consider me Hispanic, they can, but I didn't advertise that way, and I'm an American first.
Bill Flores
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The stories we tell about each other matter very much. The stories we tell ourselves about our own lives matter. And most of all, I think the way that we participate in each other's stories is of deep importance.
Jessica Jackley
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My father was a civil servant, fairly sort of middle ranking, low to middle ranking. He worked almost entirely in what was then called Administrative Labour, dealing with employment and unemployment issues.
John Hume
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The libertarian worship of individual freedom, and contempt for social convention, comes easiest to people who have never really had to grow up.
George Packer
