George Packer Quotes

My readers know my views on politics and politicians because I make no secret of them in my comments for 'The New Yorker' and elsewhere.

George Packer

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While the majority of my childhood memories are beautiful, I also have experienced the challenges that Nigeria has faced since independence.

Jidenna

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My life's far too complicated to be summed up in one song. It would take 20 just to represent one single day.

Meat Loaf

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I want to defend my throne. All my fans know. They love me. I want to defend this; I want to be a champ and keep defending. Come try to take over my village.

Max Holloway

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There's this really awesome theory of human motivation - that human beings all want three things. One is to be competent, one is to belong, and one is be free, as in to have choice: to not be told what to do but to choose what to do.

Angela Duckworth

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I didn't like to be restricted, because when you're in a choir, you have a part to sing and you sing it. I always liked singing on my own.

Tom Jones

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The Moto Knee shows people what's possible. It's about guys getting back in action in a sport they love.

Mike Schultz

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From Vietnam's 'Deer Hunter' to Iraq, films are never about the person who has had his house destroyed.

Mira Nair

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Members of the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate are not there by accident. Each managed to get there for some reason. Learn what it was and you will know something important about them, about our country and about the American people.

Donald Rumsfeld

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We're going to have more kids playing, and we're going to have a better chance of finding those players Minor sports in a community is for fun and recreation. For everyone.

Bobby Orr

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I don't want to write about violence, and I don't want to hang a plot on a murder. I think it's cheap.

Alice McDermott

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Coming out of the 2016 election, there was a few things that became really clear. One, that black people deserve to have vehicles that represent the breadth of our interests. Two, that we really need to do a better job of being able to communicate what conditions and experiences our communities are facing.

Alicia Garza

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Mail armor continued in general use till about the year 1300, when it was gradually supplanted by plate armor, or suits consisting of pieces or plates of solid iron, adapted to the different parts of the body.

Thomas Bulfinch

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