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 stand on my public record as a defender of the human rights of Muslims, notably my work for Moazzam Begg and other British Muslims detained without trial in Guantanamo Bay.
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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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It's always hard to deal with injuries mentally, but I like to think about it as a new beginning. I can't change what happened, so the focus needs to go toward healing and coming back stronger than before.
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A good religious poem, today, is ambergris, and it is hard to enjoy it for thinking of all those suffering whales; but martyrs are born, not made.
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I think that Peter Mandelson, particularly in relation to the issue of policing, made a huge mess of it. He allowed himself to be manipulated by the securocrats within the British establishment.
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We're spirited and spiritual... and fun follows us around.
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I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
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"Parisienne" is about how you forge a life in a new place when you are 18. And it's about a Lebanese girl who discovers Paris and the French in the 90s, and through these encounters, discovers herself.
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It's a real pleasure to earn the trust of your customers slowly over time by doing what's right.
