George Packer Quotes

To many book professionals, Amazon is a ruthless predator. The company claims to want a more literate world - and it came along when the book world was in distress, offering a vital new source of sales.

George Packer

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On Wednesday, January 1, 1954, at 6:30 P.M., I presented the first-ever 'Top of the Pops.' I remember a journalist asking me how long I thought the programme would last. I said to him, 'It will last as long as people buy records.'

Jimmy Savile

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Comics could use more creators with something worthwhile to say.

Jim Woodring

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Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age when no man dies for love except upon the stage.

John Osborne

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I always thought of my career as a body of work and not just about numbers.

Steve Garvey

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When you get to fifty-two food becomes more important than sex.

Tom Lehrer

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My body needs a lot of protein because I exercise so much. I eat dairy, meat, and gluten, but I stay away from white flour, sugar, and processed foods.

Mary Helen Bowers

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I think there are presences out there that we can't see or directly communicate with that have benevolent influence on us. Whether they're angels or something else, I'm not sure.

Misha Collins

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I love the weather in L.A., and I can drive 20 minutes to the beach, hike minutes from my house or go snowboarding a couple hours away.

Jud Tylor

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You either listen to the naysayers and fall into the pit of self-loathing, or you stay on the path and move forward.

Chris Pine

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I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.

Bryan Adams

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I'm very much influenced by your traditional comic book artists like Jack Kirby, Alex Toth and Walter Simonson. Their styles were sort of what I was gravitating towards.

Tim Fish

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From the late 1940s, into and through the '50s, there developed a complex interaction between federal government, state and local government, real-estate interests, commercial interests and court decisions, which had the effect of undermining the mass transit system across the country.

Noam Chomsky

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