Charlie Munger Quotes
It's a real pleasure to earn the trust of your customers slowly over time by doing what's right.
Quotes to Explore
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I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!
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Sean Connery wasn't the Scottish James Bond and Daniel Craig wasn't the blue-eyed James Bond. So if I played him, I don't want to be called the black James Bond.
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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I have seven children by six different mothers. Maybe success was too good to me.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.
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We've all read, I'm sure, a Superman book where we didn't really feel like we knew the character. Where the writer, often with the best of intentions, has tried put a personal stamp on the character, whether it be to try and make him more current, or cool, or have a broader appeal, etc.
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The foundations and the intent of the Affordable Care Act are laudable. The way it's being implemented is a disaster.
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The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.
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I was working for a Swedish TV show - I'm Swedish - who basically did kind of spectacular stories. It was almost like CBS '60 Minutes,' but a Swedish version where we actually did travel quite a lot. After a while, I realized that travel is the most fun part of this, so why not do it for a longer time and just go off and explore?
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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.
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There are so many avenues to explore and stories to tell. It's just about finding new ways of telling them.
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If you're not careful, you can fall into a destructive cycle of self-pity.
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I never sold any of my pieces. I had all the money I wanted. Then I would have lost my sculptures and just had more money.
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My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.
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Some girls cannot go to school because of the child labor and child trafficking.
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If I had caused any trouble worth mentioning, you would have read about it in 'Star' magazine, which is probably why I didn't cause any trouble worth mentioning.
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A victim is a victim is a victim. We should stop setting up standards that say we will have one standard of law enforcement for one group of victims but not for another.
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I joke and I say, 'I need to go back to make a supernatural horror film just to so that I can make a movie that's grounded again.'
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The average human attention span was 12 seconds in 2000 and 8 seconds in 2013. A drop of 33%. The scary part is that the attention span of a goldfish was 9 seconds, almost 13% more than us humans. That's why it's getting tougher by the day to get people to turn the page. Maybe we writers ought to try writing for goldfish!
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I have a lot of admiration for those who build tactical systems, but I always thought the most important thing a good coach must do is build the team around the characteristics of his players.
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Autumn's the mellow time.
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It's a real pleasure to earn the trust of your customers slowly over time by doing what's right.
