George Packer Quotes

It seems in America you are stuck with the position you adopted, even when events change, in order to claim absolute consistency. That can't be good.

George Packer

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New Yorkers should know that no one in the Administration, at the Department of Defense, or at the Selective Service System is advocating the reinstatement of the mandatory draft in any form.

Jim Walsh

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Ever since John Kennedy, Democrats have had a weakness for dashing younger men like Bill Clinton and Barack Obama and, I suppose, Jimmy Carter. They balance their tickets with senior statesmen - Lyndon Johnson, Joe Biden, Walter Mondale. (Al Gore was young but played ancient).

Joe Klein

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I'd had a really bad car accident years ago, and basically, the ligaments in the back of my neck were ripped, and I'd never addressed that.

Jennifer Grey

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I want to learn how to play an instrument. I want to break a world record. I'm just a very determined, motivated type of person.

Alyson Stoner

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Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience.

Steven Bochco

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I'm an amalgam of the 19th-century romantics and the beat poets.

Roy Harper

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The more one reads poetry, the less tolerant one becomes of any sort of verbosity, be that in political or philosophical discourse, be that in history, social studies or the art of fiction.

Joseph Brodsky

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I feel humiliated that I live in a country that demands more already. Why do we cling to the notion that not only must we maintain the current level of consumption, but that it must continue to grow by an exponential factor of 2 to 7 percent every year?

David Suzuki

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Some guys lock up when they hear the crowd. I feel the energy and take it with me into the fight. I've been in front of huge crowds and know to use that energy.

Bobby Lashley

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No, I'm happy to go on living the life I've chosen. I'm a university teacher and I like my job.

Antonio Tabucchi

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You can be deprived of your money, your job and your home by someone else, but remember that no one can ever take away your honor.

William Lyon Phelps

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Any actor would love to just pick up a script and be like, 'I can connect to this person, and I can see myself playing him.'

Percelle Ascott

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