"It's a cliche that the Senate is broken, and like most cliches, it's true."

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Source : "Transcript: George Packer on ‘The Empty Chamber’". Interview with Tom Casciato, www.pbs.org. October 29, 2010.

George Packer

#Broken Quotes #Cliche Quotes

“If you are required to kill someone today, on the promise of a political leader that someone else shall live in peace tomorrow, believe me, you are not only a double murderer, you are a suicide, too.”
“I know I'm not exactly a bombshell, but one has to make the best of what one's got.”
“I had seen Adelaide the dearest and the cheapest place to live in.”

Source : Catherine Helen Spence, Susan Magarey, Maryan Beams (2005). “Ever Yours, C.H. Spence: Catherine Helen Spence's An Autobiography (1825-1910), Diary (1894) and Some Correspondence (1894-1910)”, p.49, Wakefield Press
“The art finds kingdoms in a foot of ground.”
“When you go out and audition, you're going to hear a lot of 'No's.' As weird as it may sound, you almost have to love hearing 'no' because you're going to hear it way more than you hear 'yes'.”
“The basic parts, the start-up molecules, can be supplied in abundance and don't have to be made by some elaborate process. That immediately makes things simpler.”
“Not that I ever did anything wrong. I was just aggressive. That's the way I am in my life.”
“Courage is one step ahead of fear.”

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