George Packer Quotes
Surrendering to jargon is a sign of journalism's dismal lack of self-confidence in the optimized age of content-management systems.
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There's guys like me who aren't going to the theater, so distributors are leaving money on the table.
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I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!
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I think the key for any kind of artist - and this transcends music - is a certain degree of authenticity and sincerity.
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The 100m taught me a lot and it's given me confidence.
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Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.
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I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way.
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To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
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The ultimate goal of therapy... it's too hard a question. The words come to me like tranquility, like fulfillment, like realizing your potential.
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I like dogs, I just don't choose to spend time with them.
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When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
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I've been to parties in L.A. that are mind-blowing. I mean, quite literally mind-blowing. People get cellphones in the party bag, that sort of thing. Fabulous, fabulous parties.
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I don't want to be an action star; action star's life is so short. I want my life to get longer. I want my career to get longer.
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In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespeare and taught me how to write. Essays, poetry, critical analysis. Writing is a skill that was painful then but a love of mine now.
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I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.
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Whenever you can bring your chops in as a reporter to unearth a cool story, that's always a good thing.
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I've been focused on detecting nuclear terrorism at ports, in cargo containers, and I developed and built detectors that are extremely cheap and also very sensitive. My other big development is a system to produce medical isotopes that are injected into patients and used to diagnose and treat cancer.
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Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
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The extras are a nice bonus feature, but the main incentive is the musical experience.
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Anybody who has interacted with me will definitely find me to be a chirpy person.
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Ian and Sylvia, who, when you got right down to it, were essentially country and western singers. I just recorded his Four Strong Winds. It's a wonderful song.
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I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness.
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No one is more keen than me to see the Hunting Act repealed, because I believe in the management of wildlife.
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You work for a long period of time and the results don't really show, but at some point everything just comes together and you start to play better, or get more confidence.
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Surrendering to jargon is a sign of journalism's dismal lack of self-confidence in the optimized age of content-management systems.
