George Packer Quotes

It's - the working class of San Francisco and the Bay Area is being pushed out of its old neighborhoods because of the skyrocketing cost of housing, and there's no real working class left because these are jobs for engineers and managers and designers - very smart people.

George Packer

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SmartPeopleEngineersClassHousing

I've tried to eat little shrubs before. We were on an unsupported 20-plus day traverse, following the migration of endangered antelope across the Chang Tang Plateau. We were like, 'Oh, this is what they ate; we should try it.'

Jimmy Chin

DayTryEatMigrationLittleTried

I have big friends who won't go swimming because they're too embarrassed about it. I feel that's such a shame, because actually people should be encouraging fat people who are exercising to do it, not pointing and laughing.

Jo Brand

PeopleSwimmingFeelFatFriendsGo

My dream is just to make zero-budget movies for the rest of my life, because I love that environment.

Matthew Gray Gubler

LifeLoveRestMy LifeEnvironment

I think great art is always ambiguous and can't be pinned down.

Stephen Rea

GreatArtThinkDownAlwaysI Think

I have long believed this interdependence defines the new world we live in.

Tony Blair

LiveWorldLongNewInterdependence

Peter Sellers was a solitary character, always preferring to hide behind a mask, and consequently, you never really got to know the real Sellers.

Roger Moore

CharacterMaskYouHideKnowNever

I've always had to prove myself to people growing up. I had to show them that I could do this and I could do that and paying no mind to what the critics said.

Russell Westbrook

MyselfPeopleMindGrowing UpSaid

There are lots of things where NAFTA can be updated and upgraded.

Luis Videgaray Caso

ThingsWhereNAFTALotsUpdated

There's nothing I can control about how people see me as a person, but I can control how they think of me as an actor.

Miles Teller

PeopleMeControlThinkI CanActor

I love picture books - with picture books, you can use words and pictures as a double act, even tell two different versions of a story at the same time.

Mini Grey

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Let America Vote will make the case for voting rights by exposing the real motivations of those who favor voter suppression laws.

Jason Kander

VotingAmericaVoteWillRealLaws

My bedroom was filled with reading material: books salvaged from dustbins, books borrowed from friends, books with missing pages, books found in the street, abandoned, unreadable, torn, scribbled on, unloved, unwanted and dismissed. My bedroom was the Battersea Dogs' Home of books.

Christopher Fowler

HomeReadingFriendsStreetUnwanted

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