George Packer Quotes
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When I was 13, I had these episodes where I could just see the world without any words attached to it, without any associations. It was a little bit spooky. A lot of people might have even thought it was pathological. I thought it was interesting.
Barbara Ehrenreich -
Those seven years in the cloister were the key to my life.
Abbe Pierre -
I won't join another band again.
Jack White The White Stripes -
I've met people who will go to a movie that I can't stand and they say that they saw that movie ten times. There's something they like and identified in that movie, and I don't see it.
Oliver Stone -
One of the rules of the road is that if you want to create the sense of silence, it frequently has more pungency if you include the tiniest of sounds. By manipulating what you hear and how you hear it and what other things you don't hear, you can not only help tell the story, you can help the audience get into the mind of the character.
Walter Murch -
I enjoyed making this album a lot because of the knowledge we acquired over the last 3 years.
Isaac Hanson Hanson
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As a female there aren't too many characters that are very empowering, and there's something very empowering about Lara Croft. She kicks butt and she does it in style. She's confident and she's educated.
Camilla Luddington -
You can have the best people in the business, but if they're not collaborating - and they're butting heads - then it's all going to go south.
Dana Brunetti -
Growing up, I've enjoyed hunting with my father.
Dale Earnhardt -
I think what history has done to Jewish people, frankly, cannot be made good by giving them a piece of land.
Daniel Barenboim -
I always wanted to be a snake. Every time I saw a snake on TV. I'd always say 'Why not me?'
Dane Cook -
People put me on a box, and I love when people think they know what I am capable of or not capable of. I thrive off of that.
T.I.
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Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
Vaclav Havel -
There has to be room for people to make mistakes and lead their own lives.
Vanessa Kerry -
I think I'm more European in personality.
Sally Kirkland -
假如办十件事,九件是坏的,都登在报上,一定灭亡。那我就走,到农村去,率领农民推翻政府,你解放军不跟我走,我就找红军去。【在庐山会议上的讲话(1959年7月23日)】
Mao Zedong -
But of his cheere did seeme too solemne sad; Yet nothing did he dread, but ever was ydrad.
Edmund Spenser -
The theory that Divine Providence does not extend to man, and that there is no difference between man and other animals, implies very bad notions about God; it disturbs all social order, removes and destroys all the moral and intellectual virtues of man.
Maimonides
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In any case, in so far as our knowledge of the universe carries us, the advent of civilization for the first time on our globe represents the highest ascent of the life processes to which evolution had anywhere attained.
James Henry Breasted -
There is only one 'retirement plan' for terrorists.
James Mattis -
You need to recognize that the copyright date on a book reflects when it came out, not when it was written - assume that the information in the book is at least a year older than the copyright date, and possibly two.
Jamais Cascio -
Just being hired by a great director is complimentary.
Tom Skerritt -
How a candidate runs shapes how a president governs.
George Packer