Vance Packard Quotes
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I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
Hannah Gadsby -
Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
Samuel Beckett -
I came to acting in a very circuitous way.
Victoria Pratt -
I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
Salman Rushdie -
I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.
Rahul Dravid
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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
Oliver Goldsmith -
Sometimes the only way you can feel good about yourself is by making someone else look bad. And I'm tired of making other people feel good about themselves.
Dan Castellaneta -
It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.
Navjot Singh Sidhu -
My 'Big Bang Theory' costar Johnny Galecki went off the grid. He bought a huge ranch and goes there every weekend. He keeps telling me to do the same thing, but I don't know if I'm that committed. The Valley is as far off the grid as I'm going to go.
Kaley Cuoco -
I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.
Barbra Streisand -
I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
Carice van Houten
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Syria is important because it lies at the heart of a region critical to U.S. security, a region that is home to friends and partners and one of our closest allies. It is important because the Syrian regime possesses stores of chemical weapons that they have recently used on a large scale and that we cannot allow to fall into terrorists' hands.
Samantha Power -
Our need for that exterior god that sits up there and judges us... will diminish and eventually disappear.
Dan Brown -
I believe people should live full lives and not settle for anything less.
Jack Canfield -
I enjoy my food. I like to grill; I do that a lot. I like meat and have big dinners - steak, red meat splurges, prime cuts.
Taylor Kinney -
Who co-founded Google? Sergey Brin, a Russian-born Jew whose family fled anti-semitism in the Soviet Union to settle here and who considers himself a refugee.
Walt Mossberg -
I believe in the American Dream because I have lived the American Dream.
Carl Paladino
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When I grew up, there was one music: rock n' roll. Somewhere along the line, there was a separation. I don't know why it happened, but it did happen.
Clarence Clemons -
The magic of living life for me is, and always has been, the magic of living on the land, not in the magic of money.
Burt Shavitz -
I think it's up to the parents to discern what their child is watching on television.
Adam Lambert -
I love the combination of the words 'spies' and 'Balkans.' It's like meat and potatoes.
Alan Furst -
For the first time I began to think, consciously and deliberately of religion and other worlds. The Hindu religion especially went up in my estimation; not the ritual or ceremonial part, but it's great books, the 'Upnishads', and the 'Bhagavad Gita'.
Jawaharlal Nehru -
Rock and roll might be summed up as monotony tinged with hysteria.
Vance Packard