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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When I first read Anne Frank's 'Diary of a Young Girl,' I saw for the first time that a girl could be a writer and that it had something to do with survival and with ethics and fighting against evil. I admired her, though her diary remained terrifying and mysterious to me. She was a character in a real fairy tale - fairy tales are brutal.
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Our goal is to make General Motors the most valuable automotive company. Clearly, that is having sustainable profitability and driving great returns for our shareholders.
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The great charm in argument is really finding one's own opinions, not other people's.
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I have a lot of looks but right now I'm really into grunge. Messy hair, black heels. I get Michelle Pfeiffer with it.
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In primitive society, man produced directly for the satisfaction of his own wants, but with the development of society came differentiation of function; exchange and barter arose, various trades sprang up, and with the necessity of commercial intercourse came the invention of money.
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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.
