George Packer Quotes

The similarities are limited but real. They amount to a shared disgust with politics as usual in America. The Tea Party focuses on the federal government; Occupy Wall Street focuses on corporate America and its influence over the government.

George Packer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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PoliticsGovernmentTeaInfluence

Writing 'Hoop Roots' was a substitute or a surrogate activity. I can't play anymore - my body won't cooperate - so in the writing of the book, I was looking to tell a good story about my life and about basketball, but I was also looking to entertain myself the way that I entertain myself when I play.

John Edgar Wideman

LifeGoodMyselfRootsWritingBook

I want to be a mom who listens.

Tori Spelling

MomWantWhoListens

It's kind of crazy to say your home field is Lambeau Field.

Mike Daniels

HomeCrazySayKindYourField

I first became a vegetarian when I was nine, in response to an argument made by a radical babysitter. My great change - which lasted a couple of weeks - was based on the very simple instinct that it's wrong to kill animals for food.

Jonathan Safran Foer

ChangeGreatFoodSimpleWrong

I have confidence in people's basic common sense.

Dixie Lee Ray

ConfidencePeopleCommon SenseSense

Me, a teacher? No way!

Diego Godin

TeacherMeWay

I like Hawaiian pizza.

Bradley Walsh

PizzaLikeHawaiian

My sister learned she was a carrier for a recessive disease, Bloom syndrome, late in one of her pregnancies. I remember the panicked call and the weeks of worry as she and her husband awaited his test results; if he was also a carrier, this meant their daughter had a one in four chance of being born with the disorder.

Anne Wojcicki

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I don't like age barriers. I don't like when people treat you differently when they find out how old you are.

Shawn Mendes

AgePeopleTreatYouFindBarriers

I'm very proud to be black, but I'm just as much black as I am white. But I want tell stories that everybody can relate to, so I don't care who's opposite me.

Shemar Moore

I AmMeProudBlackCareWhite

If I want to dislike women, I should be allowed to. As it happens, I love them. Women to me are privately worshipped and publicly disdained.

Sebastian Horsley

LoveWomenMeWantDislikeHappens

I would say I'm a fan of late '90s to early 2000s rap. That's where I get all my inspiration from.

Tyga

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