George Packer Quotes
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I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.
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I don't like denial. I don't like repression.
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I've been saying for years that readers want inexpensive ebooks.
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Power might feel tasty and good in the moment, but it will never be satisfying, never fill you up. Yep, no matter how much power you get, you will always feel empty. You just keep wanting more and more power.
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Simply put, when women do well, everybody does better.
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Very difficult to understand American audience, what they like, what they don't like. Some movie I like very much, it doesn't work. Some movie I don't like, it gets big box office. Very difficult.
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When I became prime minister last September, I promised the Japanese people that I would not tolerate the politics of indecision. A propensity to delay difficult and weighty decisions has been hurting our country. It is detrimental to our economy, society and future, and it cannot be allowed to continue.
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You want to play in every game, and you especially don't want to be in the penalty box for five minutes and give the other team a chance to get a power play, and you don't want to hurt anyone on the other team.
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The important thing is staying together if you want to do something special.
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I don't want to dog the NFL.
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The point of serving your country is not to do your own thing or to go rogue, but to work as part of the process.
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'The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all these more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind.'
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No matter how strong and dedicated a leader may be, he must find root and strength amongst the people. He alone cannot save a nation. He may guide, he may set the tone, he may dedicate himself and risk his life, but only the people may save themselves.
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I note that the Python folks still think they like JPython. I wonder how long that will last?
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I ain't good looking And my hair ain't curls But my mother she give me something It's going to carry me through this world.
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When I stopped touring in the early '80s for a few years, it was a mistake looking back. I lost touch with my audience in a way and I think that was a bad career move.
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'Service, and the learning that goes with it, fosters citizenship, knowledge, and personal development in everyone, young and old, with disabilities and without. Our partnership with Youth Service America will bring awareness to the fact that youth with disabilities are great assets and can serve as volunteers too.'-U.S. Newswire
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As an eminent pioneer in the realm of high frequency currents... I congratulate you on the great successes of your life's work.
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If I am a cup maker, I'm interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into that cup, not what people think about it.
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The move towards neoliberalism in Britain was intimately bound up with the embrace of the U.S. as the country to be aped and copied.
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You know for me when I promise something I want to deliver. If you don't, you have to disappear.
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McCain needs Hillary to run because that's what keeps the Republican coalition together. She helps unite the Republican base.
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I remember there was a little organ which I'd tap my fingers on all the time. My interest in the instrument was so obvious, one day I got home from school and there was a real piano in my bedroom.
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It seems preposterous now, but Amazon began as a bookstore.
