George Packer Quotes
It suddenly occurred to me that the hottest tech startups are solving all the problems of being 20 years old, with cash on hand, because that's who thinks them up.George Packer
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The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code led to a development of which the South was really ashamed and which it often denied, and yet perfectly evident: the raising of slaves in the Border slave states for systematic sale on the commercialized cotton plantations.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
No one would feel embarrassed about seeking help for a child if they broke their arm - and we really should be equally ready to support a child coping with emotional difficulties.
Kate Middleton -
Santorum is the greatest person on the face of the planet as far as I'm concerned.
Foster Friess -
I just have to concentrate on doing what I do.
Laura Linney -
Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.
Walter Annenberg -
You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we're presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated - not nearly as black and white as we're led to believe.
Aaron Sorkin
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As long as I love Beauty I am young.
W. H. Davies -
A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.
Maisie Williams -
I made a commitment... both to myself and to some supporters to carefully consider a run for the Liberal leadership for the Liberal Party of Canada.
Dalton McGuinty -
Publicity's a cancer. It eats out a man - till there's nothing but a shell left.
Patrick Kavanagh -
The best pop music is the songs that a group of people can dance to, but you can also listen to in your bed and cry. That's something obviously that The Beatles started and... so having that darkness there opens another door.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
Men! The only animal in the world to fear.
D. H. Lawrence
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I have been fortunate to be able to have a career playing comedy and drama. And it's awfully hard - it's like apples and pears to compare the two.
Jack Lemmon -
Well, you know, Thomas Jefferson, who was the author of the Declaration of Independence said he wouldn't have any atheists in his cabinet because atheists wouldn't swear an oath to God. That was Jefferson and we have never had any Muslims in the cabinet.
Pat Robertson -
In films people basically work for the camera, you know, and that's why actors can hate each other and not be speaking to each other and still look as if they're in love because really they're loving the camera loving them.
Francesca Annis -
God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven.
Imelda Marcos -
It's probably fair to say that the ratio of time our Connector developers spend in the debugger versus the Emacs buffer is higher than with most software.
Nat Friedman -
I like to look strong and commanding.
Zoe Saldana
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The injunction that we should love our neighbors as ourselves means to us equally that we should love ourselves as we love our neighbors.
Barbara Deming -
Wrinkles are hereditary. Parents get them from their children.
Doris Day -
I think that I’m a better speechwriter than my speechwriters. I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors. And I’ll tell you right now that I’m gonna think I’m a better political director than my political director.
Barack Obama -
Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
Tacitus -
We used to have more references to things that we pulled out because they almost felt like they were trying too hard to allude to something.
J. J. Abrams -
It suddenly occurred to me that the hottest tech startups are solving all the problems of being 20 years old, with cash on hand, because that's who thinks them up.
George Packer