Charlie Munger Quotes
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I believe that movies are fast becoming antique and dinosauric as a medium. Film is a medium for the over-40s and television has gone the same way. If you're going to look towards the new generation, then of course you're going to have to be a lot more random, spontaneous, irreverent and provocative with your programming.
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Sometimes I try a Mai Tai. It's so fruity. It's a little embarrassing, but I like it.
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How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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Though many corporations honor commitments to reduce dangerous pollution, some cut corners and cheat. The marketplace doesn't always have mechanisms to correct bad actors.
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I used to never feel pressure to be creative; it's always just been a fun thing. And then suddenly, it's my job, and people are asking, 'Where's the record?'
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I enjoy my life, I love track, I'm set for life financially.
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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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There is no age limit on the enjoyment of sex. It keeps getting better.
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It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.
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I'm privileged to have had some success, but I've never forgotten what it was like to queue for a half-crown gallery seat for 'Oliver!' which is why I ensure that there are £20 day tickets for 'Miss Saigon' and that the balconies in my theatres are as comfortable as I can possibly make them.
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Being physical and doing my own stunts - it is fun to do these kind of films once in a while, especially before you get too old.
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I was born in 1952 in Chidambaram, an ancient temple town in Tamil Nadu best known for its temple of Nataraja, the lord of dance.
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When I was younger, I thought about retiring.
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I was a huge comic book fan as a kid. The only problem I had with comic books is how expensive they got. I didn't have a lot of money, so I had to be very specific about what I wanted to collect. I think they're all somewhere in the basement of my folks' house.
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I love puppies, and I love animals in general. Besides that, I do martial arts: extreme martial arts. I also play real guitar and drums, and sing. And I'm taking some college classes, hoping to major in English and creative writing.
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I wasn't that hard. I wasn't that tough. I wasn't that funny – I looked like me.
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What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes.
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Originally, I was against gay marriage because I was opposed to all marriage, being an old-fashioned gay bohemian. The straight people I knew in the sixties were very much opposed to it. I was, too, and it was never a possibility for gays, but when I saw how opposed the Religious Right was to it, I thought it a fight worth fighting.
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I get so full off of stories that people send in of encouragement.
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I made my way on to a grey list, a black list even. That's something I'm very proud of, actually.
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I believed that, in a situation where the community that I came from were being treated like second- and third-class citizens, that I had a responsibility to fight back against it. And I don't apologise to anybody for having done that. I think it was the right thing to do.
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Most people don't grab the right ideas or don't know what to do with them.
