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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I don't think it's always good to read lots of poetry.
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There is no ethnic cleansing in Bahrain, no mass genocide, no policy of killing innocent people.
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I've tended to lean more toward the Dalai Lama and people like Russell Means who have been my political and spiritual North Stars, but I certainly regard Nelson Mandela with great respect and humility.
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People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
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There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them.
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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.
