George Packer Quotes

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George Packer

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• I like everything perfect. Everything has to be neat. My sister is 5, and she's more messy than I am. I make my bed every morning, everything's perfect. My shoes are all arranged. It's sad. I'm a little like Ray, a little bit.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • She
  • Perfect
  • Morning

• I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Woman
  • Choice
  • Independence

• I love speaking at schools. That's always my favorite because I wish I'd had someone who was like me come speak at my school.

  

  Halima Aden
  • School
  • Like
  • Speak

• I'm still coming to terms with what it's like to have people follow your personal life as well as your public life. It gets amusing.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • People
  • Life
  • Follow

• There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Invest
  • Horizon
  • Beyond

• I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Long
  • Language
  • Voice

• I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • Think
  • Death
  • Day

• The whole point of music is being able to share your story. I've been songwriting for a long time, usually while on the road, as a way to get my feelings out.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • Time
  • Music
  • Long

• Imam Rauf and his backers have every legal right to build their extravagant Islamic center within the lethal radius of Ground Zero. But the rest of us have the right to question why they insist on doing so.

  

  Ralph Peters
  • Why
  • Question
  • Rest

• As long as I love Beauty I am young.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Long
  • Love
  • Beauty

• As straight Americans we have two choices: we can choose to sit back and enjoy our rights as we have them, or we can realize that it is actually not freedom at all when our friends, family, neighbors, and colleagues do not share these basic rights.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Freedom

• There's something really cool about TV. TV, you get the luxury of having the same people around. It is such a blessing when you get a TV job. You really have a chance to get to make, like, work friends. I think TV is one of the few mediums where I've had the opportunity to get to know my crew members.

  

  Valerie Azlynn
  • People
  • Work
  • Job

• When you are already in Detroit, you don't have to take a bus to get there.

  

  Ram Dass
  • You
  • Take
  • Bus

• I am not the most courageous guy in the world outside of the court.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • World
  • Court
  • Courageous

• A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not.

  

  Dalton Trumbo
  • Up
  • Good
  • Live

• I love unsalted almonds, especially if I'm about to do a photo shoot or compete. There's no mess, and they're so easy to pack in a little Ziploc bag to take with you. It's my number one go-to snack!

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • Love
  • Easy
  • Bag

• Talking about relationships is a surefire way to jinx them.

  

  Maggie Grace
  • Way
  • Talking
  • Relationships

• I would go from one city to the next, inspired by the monks in the Middle Ages, who would carry knowledge from one monastery to the next monastery.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Knowledge
  • City
  • Inspired

• For whatever the will and energy of a man may be, human strength has a limit, and this limit had been reached.

  

  Alfred Dreyfus
  • Energy
  • Limit
  • Reached

• Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the stuff out there, but the stuff inside your head. It's going to be commercial and nasty at the same time.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Time
  • Help
  • Reality

• 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.

  

  George Packer
  • People
  • War
  • Fire

• One day some people came to the master and asked: How can you be happy in a world of such impermanence, where you cannot protect your loved ones from harm, illness or death? The master held up a glass and said: Someone gave me this glass; It holds my water admirably and it glistens in the sunlight. I touch it and it rings! One day the wind may blow it off the shelf, or my elbow may knock it from the table. I know this glass is already broken, so I enjoy it - incredibly.

  

  Ajahn Chah
  • People
  • World
  • Water

• Long before being nerdy was cool, there was Leonard Nimoy. Leonard was a lifelong lover of the arts and humanities, a supporter of the sciences, generous with his talent and his time. And of course, Leonard was Spock. Cool, logical, big-eared and level-headed, the center of Star Trek’s optimistic, inclusive vision of humanity’s future. I loved Spock.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Long
  • Art

• WikiLeaks is not a news organization; it is a cell of activists that is releasing information designed to embarrass people in power.

  

  George Packer
  • People
  • Power
  • Organization