George Packer Quotes

When I interviewed Paul Bremer in his office, he had almost no books on his shelves. He had a couple of management books, like 'Leadership' by Rudolph Giuliani. I didn't take it as an encouraging sign.

George Packer

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The big secret to winning elections is to get more votes than your opponent. My friend Representative Robin Hayes is a good example to study.

Jesse Helms

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If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.

Jeff Bezos

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Be yourself. Don't try too hard - it shows.

Amar'e Stoudemire

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I am a woman and, second, I have been to war. I am a combat veteran. This is not a war on women, and anytime Democrats use the word 'war,' they need to do it to honor our servicemen and women.

Joni Ernst

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One of the perks of my job as a fashion journalist is the travel opportunity.

Derek Blasberg

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I'm not a complete moron like most musicians whom I've met.

Chrissie Hynde

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The idea that there is one kind of African is, of course, ridiculous. Sometimes African entrepreneurs want to kill you because you are saying public health is the priority, not roads. Of course they are right to press for that issue, but so are we right, I believe, to argue, for example, that millions of children could and should be vaccinated.

Bono

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The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own.

Alistair Cooke

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It's great working with my sister, because we are very close as a family - my brother, my sister and myself. We have a great relationship.

Penelope Cruz

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If you're sitting across the table from someone, the geometry of the situation says 'confrontation.' If you're walking with somebody, you're heading in the same direction, and the spatial dance you're doing is a little more cooperative.

Scott Kim

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Any commands which Congress may have for me shall be cheerfully executed by one of their earliest soldiers, whose happiness it is to think that, at a less smiling moment, he had the honor to be adopted by America, and whose blood, exertions, and affections will in her good times, as they have been in her worst, be entirely at her service.

Marquis de Lafayette

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When you do a comedy, the goals are much clearer to me.

Luke Wilson

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