George Packer Quotes

It might not be wise for a sometime political journalist to admit this, but the 2016 campaign doesn't seem like fun to me.

George Packer

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The world is a mess.

Mauricio Macri

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I'm a micro-celebrity, about as small a celebrity as you can be.

Steve Burns

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I love anything by Tchaikovsky. He was the real pop star of his day.

Sufjan Stevens

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I was fixated on Prince's 'Black Album' for a long time.

Rivers Cuomo

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There are two sorts of curiosity - the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things.

Robert Wilson Lynd

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I wasn't Barbie-obsessed. I think my mother might have been my Barbie.

Michael Kors

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I was a sitting judge in Manhattan. I was a supervising judge in Manhattan, and they said to me, 'Did you ever think of doing what you do on television?'

Judy Sheindlin

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Whenever you're sitting across from some important person, always picture him sitting there in a suit of long red underwear. That's the way I always operated in business.

Joseph P. Kennedy

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Hunting forces a person to endure, to master themselves, even to truly get to know the wild environment. Actually, along the way, hunting and fishing makes you fall in love with the natural world. This is why hunters so often give back by contributing to conservation.

Donald Trump, Jr.

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I was making projections about 'Humans of New York,' back when I had zero followers, that made all my friends and family roll their eyes. I'd throw out these huge numbers: 'One day, a million people are gonna be looking at this. Trust me.' And even those wild, wild numbers I was throwing out have just been smashed. So, it's a good feeling.

Brandon Stanton

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There were days when I was literally running for hours in the forest and then I'd jump on a plane and then I'd be on the 'Nurse Jackie' set. I was going from Vancouver to New York every three days. For me, it was really invigorating.

Peter Facinelli

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Discussions of the economy, especially during times of crisis, are often framed in terms of lessons we supposedly learned during the Depression of the 1930s. If we are not to endure terrible times like those again, we are told, we must support whatever form of state intervention is currently being peddled.

Thomas Woods

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