George Packer Quotes

I actually think that self-interest is overrated as an all-purpose guide to political motive. It leaves out something at least as powerful and immovable - individual psychology.

George Packer

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My 'Movember' moustache was never going to be as big as Nigel Mansell's, but I tried my best. The amazing thing is that when you try to grow a moustache, you notice everyone else's. There are some amazing moustaches on the grid.

Jenson Button

BestAmazingGrowYouTryNever

My father constantly reminded me that he named me after Angela Yvonne Davis, a scholar and activist who was well known for her work in tandem with the Black Panther Party. That felt like a purposeful, beckoning call to engage in strategic resistance and to fight for the oppressed.

Angela Rye

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If, you know, all your life you're making films or whatever, and somehow along the way you lose meaning in whatever you're doing when you're making the films, they're just not the same as they used to be to you. That doesn't mean your life is over; it just means maybe go try to live a different life.

Angel Olsen

LifeLiveDoingMeaningYouLose

People always say to me, 'You have such a clearly defined sense of style,' and when I hear it, I get crazed, because what I hear - and I know they mean it as a compliment - is that I have such a narrow vision that I can't get out of it.

Stanley Donen

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Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.

Robert A. Heinlein

NeverCatDealtWhoProtocolAnyone

I looked at myself and realized I had a lot of boundaries up about what I would talk about, what was private for me and what wasn't. I decided to just get rid of them. It was quite liberating.

Mike Posner

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I suppose you can say I became an odd-job man.

Lord Mountbatten

ManYouSaySupposeBecame

I really just like making music. People call that 'work.' Like, 'Oh, you're going to the studio to work?' No, that's even what I do in my off day. I love recording.

Juice Wrld

WorkLoveMusicDayPeopleYou

Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some.

Jean Anouilh

LifeArtNiceAimGiveSome

I love very much to draw animals.

Josef Albers

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Race is used, by all of us, in the most manipulative ways, is often force-fit and reduced to something it isn't, to something that gives us a sense of comfort, a false one. Many of us thought - needed to feel - the whole business was 'settled.' But it's not, never has been. Laws have only taken us so far.

Jonathan Coleman

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So that's what's going on right now, and I'm looking to put out an album within the next six months.

Christy Romano

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