George Packer Quotes
American wars in Muslim countries created some extremists and inflamed many more while producing a security vacuum that allowed them to wreak mayhem.
George Packer
Quotes to Explore
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But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write music.
Adam Jones
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When I first got married to my husband, he had boxes full of photos of my two stepsons, ages 5 and 8 at the time, and I put them together in some little albums and wrote notes about how happy I was that they were a part of my life.
Nancy O'Dell
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When I'm on a good go, I can do 12, 13 hours of writing.
Karin Slaughter
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America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
Nadine Gordimer
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In some communities, I show up, and they say, 'Well, we haven't seen our Democrat congressman in 10 years.'
Rand Paul
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I love the Wendy Syred boutique in Taunton. She has fantastic off-the-wall stuff, such as Vivienne Westwood. And I always have huge success in Omah Shoes, which is also in Taunton. I've got such small feet - three and a half - but I always find my size there.
Kate O'Mara
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When I got back to Madison Avenue, I realized that copywriters made more than artists, so I switched.
Gary Jennings
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One of the first major storylines that 'All My Children' featured was Erica Kane, a rebellious daughter, and her mother, sort of a matriarchal type, who was trying to guide her daughter to a safer place.
Eden Riegel
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Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
Brown Campbell
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There are no free lunches in life. You have to earn it. I am paying my dues. People have accused me of having it easy because I am Amitabh Bachchan's son. Yes, I am his son, and I've never run away from it. I work hard to make him proud.
Abhishek Bachchan
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Reddit is where anyone can come and tell their real story.
Yishan Wong
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In the child, consciousness rises out of the depths of unconscious psychic life, at first like separate islands, which gradually unite to form a 'continent,' a continuous landmass of consciousness. Progressive mental development means, in effect, extension of consciousness.
Carl Jung
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Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
Jack Horner
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I longed to be bright and most certainly never was. I was rather hopeless, I suspect.
Maggie Smith
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I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.
Zoe Kazan
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When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.
Adam Ant
Adam and the Ants
