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George Packer Quotes

The invisibility of work and workers in the digital age is as consequential as the rise of the assembly line and, later, the service economy.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: August 13, 1960

Topics

Work Age Service Rise Digital Line

The values transmitted through oral history are many - courage, selflessness, the ability to endure, and to do so with humor and grace. I got those values listening to my dad's stories about the Depression and how their family survived. It gave me courage that I, too, could survive hard times.

Family Courage History Depression Me

Obama's explanation for the slowdown in economic growth is that the public sector is hurting, and that's where Washington must step in and act.

Growth Step Washington Act Economic

Everybody in life is pursuing money: left, right, charity, nonprofits, everybody's pursuing money. Everybody wants a raise. Everybody wants to improve their standard of living. Everybody wants to be rich, and especially those that go to Washington.

Life Money Rich Charity Go Living

I like a good pool party.

Good Pool Party Like

There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses.

Flowers Strange Reason Error Senses

I never look at a note. I just roam the stage. The people do not want to leave.

People Look Want Never Stage Leave

Sometimes I observe stuff I haven't been through and write about it. I used to walk my dog with these 50-year-olds, and they'd tell me stories I could use.

Dog Walk Me Sometimes Write Tell

I actually feel I'm in a much better place than I've ever been because I'm thankful people still love the songs that I've written, and they seem to like me. And they come to the shows in droves, and they get all excited, and I can still hit all the notes, and I don't look terrible.

Love Thankful People Me Better Look

Television broadcasts have, in the main, been more suggestive, less specific, more distant in their images than the print press: often you knew that lump was a dead body only because a chattering reporter told you it was.

You Body Television Dead More Been

If you're going to have a heart attack, mine was the kind to have. I'm thankful that it hasn't affected my output or my capacity to perform. And it has given me a lot to think and write about.

Thankful Heart Me Think You Kind

In the late 1990s, some of the worst terrorist atrocities in the world were what the Turkish government itself called state terror, namely massive atrocities, 80 percent of the arms coming from the United States, millions of refugees, tens of thousands of people killed, hideous repression, that's international terror, and we can go on and on.

Government People World Late Go

The body maintains balance in only a handful of ways. At the end of the day, disease occurs when these basic systems are out of whack.

Day Balance End Of The Day End Body

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