Charlie Munger Quotes
I'm a great admirer of the Trump change of mind about China and making an ally out of China instead of screaming about their trade.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.
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In the governments, as we've witnessed in the past, they had to hide. Because there's a lot of concentration on the friends-and-family club... We're not about that. That's not the government of the future of the State of New York. What's gonna pull this state out of the doldrums that it's in right now is an honest and open government.
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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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For a lot of pop performers, fame and celebrity is part of the job. But for singer-songwriters, no one really cares.
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If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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I wasn't popular in the home office because I wasn't chicken. I'm just a risk taker. I have gut instincts.
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It's a big theme throughout my music to just embrace everything about your own mind and to always feel powerful. It's not just a feminine thing, but for men, too, whether they feel weak, or strong or crazy or reclusive. I want everyone to feel powerful no matter what little beasts they have in their head.
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When you're listening to radio and hear the same 20 songs over and over and over, you want a break from it. Sometimes you don't want to hear something that sounds just like everything else on the radio. Eventually, if you hear the same sounds and the same musicians and the same mixes and all of that, it will start to sound like elevator music.
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I have a great office.
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No one pays me to be nice.
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It was my wish since I was a child to become something, to be able to stand on my own two feet, to do something for myself.
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Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.
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I never subscribe to the stay-at-home policy. I'm not sick of the road or sick of eating in good restaurants around the country. I like to travel.
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Larry Carlton is an incredibly versatile guitarist who has been a major force for guitar for many years. He is easily recognizable - all you have to do is hear him once and from that point on you'll be a fan, just like me. It gives me great pleasure to extend congratulations to Larry on his 2011 George Benson Lifetime Achievement Award. Congratulations !
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Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.
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It's important to be successful, and not just because there is competition, but also because it leads to better work for you.
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I'm a great admirer of the Trump change of mind about China and making an ally out of China instead of screaming about their trade.
