Charlie Munger Quotes
I'm used to people with very high IQs knowing how to recognize reality, but there's a huge human tendency where it may be instructive to think that whatever you're doing to succeed is all right.
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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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Wes Anderson deserves an award for sheer persistence of vision.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye.
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Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.
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Playing hard to get is not the way to win me over. I'm definitely more for the girl who can smile and laugh all the time and just have a good time!
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I've worked hard throughout my entire life, but I don't think all the hard work could have produced the same results without all the genetics I was given.
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I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.
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As a writer, as much as I try, I can't stop writing female characters. They have so much more to offer; they have to wear so many different hats. There's so much wonderful gray matter in a female's life that it just makes for a stronger character.
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Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
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Teasing and a sense of humor, if you can develop that in your kids, and if you can exercise it with the kids, just makes for a pleasanter atmosphere.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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I didn't only have a perceptual problem, I was also so nervous and so upset. The process just didn't work. I lost enthusiasm for school and I flunked second grade. The teachers said I was lazy.
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The difficult part was to tell the world that I was finishing.
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Broader social concerns within Muslim communities, such as discrimination, integration or socio-economic disadvantages, should be treated distinctively and not as part of counterterrorism agenda, which has been counter-productive.
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Some people don't like long bus rides, but I love them. There's sort of a sense of solitude.
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Whether the ice caps melt, or expand - whatever happens - the anthropogenic global warming theorists claim it confirms their theory. A perfect example of a pseudo-science like astrology.
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I separated from the Southern Baptists when they adopted the discriminatory attitude towards women, because I believe what Paul taught in Galatians that there is no distinction in God's eyes between men and women, slaves and masters, Jews and non-Jews - everybody is created equally in the eyes of God.
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This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, 'gun control' legislation. Good news - if you're a crook.
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Since human wisdom cannot secure us from accidents, it is the greatest effort of reason to bear them well.
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The cost of pension reforms has been perhaps the biggest error committed in the process of modernizing Bolivia's economy.
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I'm used to people with very high IQs knowing how to recognize reality, but there's a huge human tendency where it may be instructive to think that whatever you're doing to succeed is all right.
