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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A lot of people don't know that I had a special appearance in 'Keratam'; that was my first Telugu film. I only shot for four to five days. When they called me, I said, 'I can't give 60 days for a movie. If you have something for one week or 10 days, then I can accommodate.'
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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 want everybody to run at the same speed as me. But some people are more conscientious, they think more and they plan more. And they're more careful.
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Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao was one of the worst boxing matches I've ever seen, but millions of people watched it because of the personalities involved.
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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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I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it's more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both the marvellous and the terrible.
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Not everything has to mean something. Some things just are.
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Conversation's got to have some root in the past, or else you've got to explain every remark you make, an' it wears a person out.
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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.
