George Packer Quotes
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You can have the greatest player in terms of mastering an instrument and you could be yawning your head off when you hear them. So, it's not what you do, but the way you're doing it and in the end that's all that we have.
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Sometimes I work purely 8-12 shifts, banging stuff into the computer. Other times, my office is like a scene from a detective movie, with Post-it Notes, plans, photographs all stuck on the walls and arrows going everywhere, and it's 4 A.M.
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I've personally never had the chance to go to Lambeau Field.
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To my real estate agent, Chernobyl is a fixer-upper.
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These statements about torture, about alleged misuse of power and things like that, insulted the Filipinos more than their leader because it was made to appear as if Filipinos would tolerate a leader who would torture his own people, who would utilize his executive prerogatives for abuses.
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
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I spent years commuting into London when I was working as a temp, and I hated the monotony of it.
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I never read the tabloids.
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I guess I'm a bit of a tomboy and can be quite resourceful.
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I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.
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There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.
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The laptop computer is a workhorse. The tablet is just a display.
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I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too thoroughly, but I think that all mountaineers do get a great deal of satisfaction out of overcoming some challenge which they think is very difficult for them, or which perhaps may be a little dangerous.
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I make images from things I find serendipitously. I don't know what it is, but I know it when I see it. It could be from a newspaper, on the street. It could be something I fell over.
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You've got to separate the singer and the songs.
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We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
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You are responsible for the energy that you create for yourself, and you're responsible for the energy that you bring to others.
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Let me define a leader. He must have vision and passion and not be afraid of any problem. Instead, he should know how to defeat it. Most importantly, he must work with integrity.
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We had an awfully good ball club that was capable of beating anybody. They were that good.
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Ever get the feeling you've been cheated? Good night!
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A lot of Texans go up to New York and stay there forever. If there are any two places with more individual characters, I don't know them.
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In life you must often choose between getting a job done or getting credit for it. In science, the most important thing is not the ideas you have but the decision which ones you choose to pursue. If you have an idea and are not doing anything with it, why spoil someone else's fun by publishing it?
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On foreign policy, Obama has talked softly and carried a big stick.
