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George Packer Quotes

No-one can say when the unwinding began, when the coil that held America together in its secure and sometime shifting grip first gave way.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: August 13, 1960

Topics

Together America Say Way First Grip

If you're secure in yourself, and even if you're not secure in yourself, you don't need to bully.

Yourself You Need Bully Even Secure

I thought I'd be married and a father by 35.

Father Thought Married

Having been a cameraman, I think about, 'Well, if this was real, how would this be shot?' I try to inject as much realism as much as possible.

Think Possible Try Real Well Been

One of the things that distinguishes the CIA from the State Department is that the CIA is both asked to, and authorized to, steal secrets. So if the question is whether the CIA steals secrets, the answer is yes.

Secrets Question Yes Things Answer

I never take advice from anyone more messed up than I am.

I Am Advice Messed Up More Never Up

We eliminated the monarchy. We put limits on how long one person could lead our country and on the powers they held while in office. We took differences of opinion seriously - in fact, we built them into the fabric of our government.

Government Opinion Limits Long Lead

If man is only a little lower than the angels, the angels should reform.

Mary Wilson Little

Man Angels Little Reform Only Than

I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.

Michel de Montaigne

Truth Forward Questions Debate Seek

I don't 'handle' people. It's so much easier to manipulate actors than to really have an earnest discussion with them. It's very easy to say whatever's going to appease them and then turn around and do whatever you want to do. It's difficult to be forthright with people, because the job does not lend itself to that.

Job People Easy You Say Want

I think we are all interested in end-times ideas and also in the current climate that we are all living in, where money is a little harder to come by, things continue to get expensive; gas prices are not too far from people's heads. There are more and more people. Human society's going to have real problems.

Dominic Monaghan

Money People Ideas Society Think

I aspire to be that, to be a voice of reason one day.

Day Voice One Day Reason Aspire

To survive in a lot of male-dominated situations - the police, the military, what have you - you put on a bit of the crass, blowhard thing, because you just can't survive being the nice guy in those environments.

Police Survive You Nice Military

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