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.
Mahavishnu John McLaughlin -
I've personally never had the chance to go to Lambeau Field.
Odell Beckham, Jr. -
To my real estate agent, Chernobyl is a fixer-upper.
Yakov Smirnoff -
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.
Ferdinand Marcos -
The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
Mao Zedong -
I spent years commuting into London when I was working as a temp, and I hated the monotony of it.
Olivia Colman
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I guess I'm a bit of a tomboy and can be quite resourceful.
Maisie Williams -
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.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
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.
Vera Farmiga -
The laptop computer is a workhorse. The tablet is just a display.
Barry Lam -
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.
Edmund Hillary -
You've got to separate the singer and the songs.
Van Morrison
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We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
Wendell Berry -
Addiction is a hugely complex and destructive disease, and its impact can be simply devastating. All too often, lives and families can be shattered by it.
Kate Middleton -
Coming up, the music of my era was very conscious. I grew up on Public Enemy, and it was popular culture to be aware. People were wearing Malcolm X T-shirts and Malcolm X hats. It was a very cool thing to know who Malcolm X was. It was all in the lyrics. It was trendy to be conscious and aware.
D'Angelo -
I'd watch my father get up at 5 o'clock and go down to the Eastern Market in Detroit to do the shopping for his restaurant, and get that business going and then go out on his vending machine business.
Ed Bradley -
The cause of war is preparation for war.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
No, we have not destroyed it. Let it sit. We cannot change its fate.
Vasily Grossman
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Life is too short to play-act if you don't have to.
Ory Okolloh -
My brain can’t manage to repair the losses, and the only thing I really grasp is that I am lost.
Arthur Cravan -
I think with all records, it's the starting out that is the difficult stage.
Alison Moyet -
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
Mark Twain -
On foreign policy, Obama has talked softly and carried a big stick.
George Packer