George Packer Quotes

Last year, in the year 2008, it just became normal to watch great American institutions crumble, almost dissolve like sand.

George Packer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Topics

GreatAmericanSandYearNormal

Be a dreamer. If you don't know how to dream, you're dead.

Jim Valvano

DreamsDreamerYouDreamKnowDead

It's really important for me to do the fundamentals of this job really, really well. And to let people know that I think the core responsibilities of a member of Congress aren't seeking the national headlines or being the spokesperson on this issue or that issue when you just get there.

Joe Kennedy III

JobPeopleMeThinkYouKnow

The pay is good and I can walk to work.

John F. Kennedy

WorkGoodWalkI CanPay

It's an immense amount of pressure, celebrity itself.

Megan Fox

PressureCelebrityItselfImmense

I feel audiences are not given enough credit for their intelligence.

Tony Goldwyn

IntelligenceFeelEnoughCredit

On a piece of prose, you have to work at least six hours a day. I don't know how you can do that and teach and raise a kid and paint the house.

Mary Karr

WorkDayYouHouseKnowTeach

Let's say music is needed for only 43 seconds of film. You have to score it so it is an entity, so it won't bother anyone when it ends so quickly. Or if a song runs 2 minutes and 45 seconds, but the titles run a minute longer, you have to arrange that song so it doesn't get repetitious.

Marvin Hamlisch

MusicSongYouSayRunFilm

Governance has been at the heart of the work of the Oxford Martin Commission for Future Generations and is a clear focus in its report, 'Now for the Long Term.'

Mo Ibrahim

WorkFutureHeartFocusLongNow

My red line is Iran may not have a nuclear weapon. It is inappropriate for them to have the capacity to terrorize the world. Iran with a nuclear weapon or with fissile material that can be given to Hezbollah or Hamas or others has the potential of not just destabilizing the Middle East.

Mitt Romney

RedWorldPotentialOthersLineMay

I've gone across that border many times. My son was born in the United States; he is also a Mexican-American with the two passports.

Diego Luna

SonBorderBornTwoGoneUnited

The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.

Denis Diderot

FreedomActionGeniusPlaceInsight

I stopped this one about two months before federation and I want the next one to be more political. It will deal with the formation of white Australian policy and things like that.

Colleen McCullough

PoliticalWhiteWantWillMoreTwo

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by George Packer