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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Intimacy is something to be cherished, and intimacy is not something to be afraid of.
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Thank God for TNA: we've had the creative freedom to do what we want to do.
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A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility: it may be right, but irrelevant.
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I think the most important thing for the public and the press is to just listen to what Donald Trump says and follow up and ask questions about what appear to be either contradictory or uninformed or outright wacky ideas.
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A man is never drunk if he can lay on the floor without holding on.
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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.
