Charlie Munger Quotes
People are trying to be smart - all I am trying to do is not to be idiotic, but it's harder than most people think.
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The American people deserve a budget that invests in the future, protects the most vulnerable among us and helps to create jobs and economic security.
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To people of my generation, the picture show was really another dimension - sensual, whimsical. No uniforms or collective rites, but a place where little boys like me could laugh and feel free.
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If we're going to go really deep, we're all trying to live forever. My music is my way of doing that.
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I'm not very cool. I have a really hard time meeting people and stuff.
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Voting to go on strike is not a decision working people take lightly and is always accompanied by a strong sense of injustice at work. The impact of losing a day's pay is significant, not least for those in the lowest paid jobs who are already on the tightest budgets.
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I can be extremely vulnerable. People are tough on me because they think I can handle it.
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Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.
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To be aware of others' accomplishments and the indebtedness we have to so many people is to appreciate and begin to respect all members of the human family.
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I think there are some people who are just kind of born to create drama and then capitalise on it.
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I busted my chin open trying to be Evel Knievel on my bike. When it happened, you could see straight through to the bone, I thought my dad was going to pass out. It left a scar that I still have now.
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Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.
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To write a love song that might be able to make it on the radio, that is something that is terrifying to me. But I can definitely write a song about that chair over there. That I can do, but to sit and write a pop song out of the clear blue sky, that is very difficult and I admire the people that can do it.
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I feel like I was born and bred to stay self-motivated. I'm not one of those people who ho-hums and feels sorry for himself when something's bad.
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I'm still enjoying discovering more designers and getting to play dress-up in a bigger way than I ever have before.
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When you're a child, you're able to assimilate so easily into any situation. You even start talking like the people you're around. I wasn't conscious that I was so good at that until I started to truly feel like an actor.
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Lots of people will give you advice... and depending upon how well they know you, the advice might be valid or not so valid.
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There are an awful lot of people who despise government precisely because it opened the door for common citizenship for people of all races and all natures in the United States.
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I don't believe in cutting out people from the past. It doesn't give strength; it just gives loneliness.
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I have a vision of India: an India free of hunger and fear, an India free of illiteracy and want. I dream of an India that is prosperous, strong and caring. An India, that regains a place of honour in the comity of great nations.
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I've seen unpublished manuscripts where the writer doesn't know they are making fun of the villain - but they are. If you aren't afraid of your villain, how can your hero be afraid?
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I go dog-walking a lot.
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My novels are about the European reality, not about chases. You want chases, get somebody else's books.
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But now Americans, they felt a sense of peace and protection because they've been separated by so many thousands of miles of ocean. And you know, the fact that it's come to the U.S. like this is so sad, and yet you know, what can you do? It's here.
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People are trying to be smart - all I am trying to do is not to be idiotic, but it's harder than most people think.
