Charlie Munger Quotes
If you're glued together right and honorable, you will succeed. Get in there and get rid of stupidities and avoid bad people. Try teaching that to your grandchildren. The best way is by example. Fix yourself.
Quotes to Explore
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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Do not resist a new idea. Be quietly receptive. Go along with it, even unwillingly at first. Sooner or later, it will reveal itself as your ally.
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I want to see more Asians on TV. I want to see more faces like mine on TV.
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I took the position from day one that it was the right decree, that the modifications I made to the decree were proper, that the correct outcome had been obtained, and that in due time all of that would become apparent. And it has become apparent.
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My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.
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I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.
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I've been thinking about Jesus. Don't you find it a bit strange that, since He was living with His family and all, He up and left them just when they needed him most?
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Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their own acts will care about those consequences and try to learn from their mistakes.
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I saw Damien Rice in Dublin when I was 13, and that inspired me to want to pursue being a songwriter... I practised relentlessly and started recording my own EPs. At 16, I moved to London and played any gigs I could, selling CDs from my rucksack to fund recording the next, and it snowballed from there.
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There have always been arguments showing that free will is an illusion: some based on hard physics, others based on pure logic.
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The public saw my father right out of central casting. He looked the part, acted the part... he was the part! The real life Godfather.
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Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.
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I've never been competitive with anybody but myself.
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Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.
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Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it.
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Of course things get stagnant; people get too used to their environment, but that's why I'm in my district every week, at meetings with my constituents.
Charles B. Rangel -
There's all kinds of people teaching who don't do anything worth a nickel. Likewise in advertising.
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If the media isn't slanted toward the Left, why is everyone so worried about my affiliation with Glenn Beck but not with Alec Baldwin?
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Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional?
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By the year 2070 we cannot say, or it would be imbecile to do so, that any man alive could understand Shakespearean experience better than Shakespeare, whereas any decent eighteen-year-old student of physics will know more physics than Newton.
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If you're glued together right and honorable, you will succeed. Get in there and get rid of stupidities and avoid bad people. Try teaching that to your grandchildren. The best way is by example. Fix yourself.
