George Packer Quotes
I don't know if it's a male thing, but I've always been interested in how people respond to the stresses and dangers of war, how they react under fire.
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An MC is somebody who can control the crowd. An MC is a master of ceremonies so not only can you say your rap, you can rock the party.
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I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright.
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I've got a great staff and great support system, and I'm going to stick my neck out and do what I always do.
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When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.
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I did not have a van, or wear Birkenstocks and tie-dyes.
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I get cast as a lot of sympathetic characters. I'd like to play someone really unpleasant.
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I have always wanted to work with Lingusamy, as he is a master of commercial cinema. I have always admired his etching of female characters.
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We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
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I was bulimic and anorexic for a while, just hating my body. As an actress, I was never thin enough, never pretty enough. My boobs weren't big enough.
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If you grew up in my generation, you're going to be influenced by Run DMC, the Beastie Boys and also listen to Metallica - it wasn't segregated anymore.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
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I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there.
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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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The glorification of sisters, mothers as the selfless Indian women who will do 'agni pariksha' and the one who sees her own betterment only in the betterment of their husbands and fathers, that has to stop. It's very regressive.
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With the Lincoln assassination, the South didn't feel it could mourn along with the North. But Garfield was beloved by all the American people. He was trusted and respected by North and South, by freed slaves and former slave owners. Also by pioneers, which his parents had been, and by immigrants.
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Everything you'll ever need to know is within you; the secrets of the universe are imprinted on the cells of your body.
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I am deeply concerned with the diminution of the teaching strength of the country as a result of the disproportionately low salaries that are paid to teachers throughout the country.
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According to your sympathy, you will take pleasure in your own happiness or in the happiness of other people; but it is always your own happiness you seek.
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There've been a few mother-daughter movies that are somewhat realistic. But the mother-son movies are more comical than realistic: 'Throw Momma from the Train,' 'Stop! or My Mom Will Shoot.' You don't sit in the dark and go, 'Oh my God, that's my mother.'
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My mother introduced to me as a child the world of language: the way in which translation can be a system by which you can understand others.
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I'm endlessly putting myself on tapes for things over in America! I'm always sitting at home, learning lines, sending stuff to America.
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I want people to like me. They don't have to always like my characters, you understand.
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I don't know if it's a male thing, but I've always been interested in how people respond to the stresses and dangers of war, how they react under fire.
