George Packer Quotes

The reformocons court right-wing censure simply by acknowledging that the middle class is under pressure and that government has a role to play beyond cutting taxes.

George Packer

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'Obama and Biden want to raise taxes by a trillion dollars.' Guess what? Yes, we do in one regard: We want to let that trillion dollar tax cut expire so the middle class doesn't have to bear the burden of all that money going to the super-wealthy. That's not a tax raise. That's called fairness where I come from.

Joe Biden

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At one point I intended to write precursor and sequel novels, about the establishment of the Web and its next evolution, but I am very unlikely to now; they would take place in a different universe.

John M. Ford

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Paolo Guerrero is a good player - and Mladen Petric also. I think both are really good and even better than me.

Son Heung-min

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When everyone at school is speaking one language, and a lot of your classmates' parents also speak it, and you go home and see that your community is different -there is a sense of shame attached to that. It really takes growing up to treasure the specialness of being different.

Sonia Sotomayor

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We need to learn... how war brutalises and degrades winners and losers alike and what happens to us when, having heedlessly waged war for no good reason, we are encouraged to inflate and demonise our enemies in order to justify that war's indefinite continuance.

Tony Judt

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I think of myself as a writer as much as I think of myself as a linguist and an academic. I really enjoy writing - playing with language and getting just the right metaphor.

Deborah Tannen

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I am a big foodie, so much so that I eat in every half an hour. This is the secret of my glowing skin.

Deepika Padukone

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I just love to be out on the lake, wakeboard, surfing, just playing, man.

Donald Cerrone

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Actors know, with me they aren't going to be allowed to rehearse a scene for a couple of hours and then get away with doing 25 takes before we get it right. So they come with their full bag of tricks.

Clint Eastwood

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I've always been up for a challenge, and you gotta connect with the camera and the audience the same way you gotta connect with the horse.

Brady Jandreau

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Stick a camera up in an Indian village, and thousands of people come to watch.

Art Malik

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All the hard work starts in the gym.

Anthony Bennett

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