George Packer Quotes

Even while writing about foreign places, I have been in a way writing about America, because that's the subject that interests me the most. I'm attached to it, critical, but it's definitely my country, and maybe even more so when I'm overseas.

George Packer

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I mean, any time an actress gets to work with another actress, it's like, 'Oh, there are two of us in a movie! How are you? Let's sit in the hair chair together!' We're lonely women.

Jennifer Garner

WorkWomenTimeTogetherHairChair

The act of founding a company is its own act of narcissism: 'I alone can do this.'

Andy Dunn

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Breast-feeding is the natural, optimal way to feed a child.

Mayim Bialik

ChildWayNaturalFeedOptimal

I don't prejudge issues. I come to every case with an open mind. Every case is new to me.

Sonia Sotomayor

MindMeNewOpen MindOpenCome

I come from the kind of family where work is work; my parents always taught me that it's better to be doing something than sitting around doing nothing.

Tom Hooper

WorkFamilyParentsMeBetterDoing

So rather than face the bitter truth, China has placed severe restrictions on the Internet and enlisted America's high-tech companies as their Internet police.

Tom Lantos

TruthPoliceFaceInternetAmerica

Anyway, so what he did was, he spread sheets for 100 yards and underneath them he'd put things so there were bumps and different levels and on top he'd put little bushes and if you didn't look to close, it looked like snow!

Rod Steiger

SnowYouLookTopLittleSpread

I'm very much interested in getting prisons off the stock market. I'm very much interested in upgrading the public school system... and taking a second look at capital punishment.

Ruby Dee

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Everybody wants to come out and win the gold, and sometimes it takes a personal best, sometimes it doesn't. But to be able to have all those pieces come together, it's a great feeling.

Michelle Carter

GreatBestTogetherGoldWinOut

I guess more than anything, I just realized, okay, one day I had a home to live in and my family around me. The next day, I did not.

Liz Murray

FamilyHomeLiveDayMeOkay

I meet people every single day who have heard the music and incorporated it into their lives. I feel like I have a tribe all around the world.

Jason Mraz

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The first novel I wrote, 'The White House Mess,' was a comic novel. It came out in 1986. It was a parody in the form of a White House memoir.

Christopher Buckley

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