George Packer Quotes
Climate change joined immigration, job creation, food safety, pilot training, veterans' care, campaign finance, transportation security, labor law, mine safety, wildfire management, and scores of executive and judicial appointments on the list of matters that the world's greatest deliberative body is incapable of addressing.
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Although I grew up as a fan of the culture from the disco D.J. era as a young kid and hearing the beginnings of hip-hop, I'm hearing it all from another borough in Brooklyn.
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I'm the type of person who, if somebody offers me a free meal, I get excited because you never know where your next free meal is going to come from.
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I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.
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It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.
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I really wanted to break the mold of what modern touring is right now.
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There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
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Boning is a pain, but it makes such a majestic chicken.
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What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
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I'm 80 years old, and I don't know what I'm going to be when I grow up.
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I'm less concerned about whether being a good corporate citizen burnishes a company's reputation. That's just an added benefit. I believe it's a responsibility, and there is no negotiating on responsibilities.
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Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.
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I never really drank coffee in college, but now I'm on my feet all day and out all night and can't believe it hasn't always been in my life. When morning comes I crave it.
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But if I keep my core and back strong, the scoliosis doesn't really bother me.
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Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.
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My mother was a librarian, and she worked at the Black Resource Center in South Central Los Angeles and would call me to tell me stories that she read about that were interesting to her.
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I grew up thinking that singing was my security.
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I do a lot of yoga and meditation. It calms my nerves and helps me channelise my energy.
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Yeah, I did some small parts in high school and the first year of college and then fairly soon thereafter I settled into the backstage scenery, and then at the University of Maryland I was doing posters for their productions.
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People know what they're getting with me. It's part and parcel of football that people want to see new faces, but all I can do is play games, score goals and prove I can do it. My record is there for everyone to see.
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Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.
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My mum's from Yorkshire and my parents aren't snotty or posh - they're very hard workers, both of them.
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The prospect that I could actually be a journalist triggered a 'Who do you think you are?' reaction in me. It was only in going to law school and being unhappy there that I realized that I really, really had to try it.
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Climate change joined immigration, job creation, food safety, pilot training, veterans' care, campaign finance, transportation security, labor law, mine safety, wildfire management, and scores of executive and judicial appointments on the list of matters that the world's greatest deliberative body is incapable of addressing.
