Charlie Munger Quotes

Gold is a great thing to sew into your garments if you're a Jewish family in Vienna in 1939, but I think civilized people don't buy gold, they invest in productive businesses.

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• I've always loved working out. When I was little, my dad used to make me and my sister do 10 press-ups every day before we brushed our teeth in the morning. It was like a boot camp! Then I did a lot of athletics at school and was a dancer.

  

  Fleur East
  • School
  • Dad
  • Day

• Women are blessed with energy - a power which is unique. I have been very fortunate to have played strong women and explored their strengths through my films.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Women
  • Power
  • Strong

• We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.

  

  Lacey Chabert
  • Lost
  • Space
  • London

• In tennis, because of the way it's scored, I don't think that scoring one point out of luck is ever decisive in winning. But, of course, it depends on the moment.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Winning
  • Moment
  • Luck

• I have quite a house. People come over and I go, 'I know, I'm sorry.'

  

  Larry David
  • People
  • House
  • Know

• The main thing is to make history, not to write it.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • History
  • Write
  • Main Thing

• Before breaking into music, I had various jobs: forklift driver, driving a courier. But I was forced into working rather than doing it off my own bat because that was my dad's way: you got a job and paid your way.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Music
  • Job
  • Dad

• If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Right
  • Brands
  • Threatening

• When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.

  

  Yael Naim
  • Music
  • Look
  • Emotion

• If I buy a game on Steam and I'm running it on Windows, I can go to one of the Steam machines and already have the game. So you benefit as a developer; you benefit as a consumer in having the PC experience extended in the living room.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • Experience
  • Game
  • Running

• Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • World
  • May
  • Fear

• No Hindu community, however low, will touch cow's flesh. On the other hand, there is no community which is really an Untouchable community which has not something to do with the dead cow. Some eat her flesh, some remove the skin, some manufacture articles out of her skin and bones.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Community
  • Hand
  • Dead

• You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Life
  • Why
  • You

• We are all born mad. Some remain so.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Funny
  • Mad
  • Born

• Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • America
  • Medical
  • Bankruptcy

• One of the main lessons I have learned the last five years as Secretary-General is that the United Nations cannot function properly without the support of the business community and civil society. We need to have tripartite support - the governments, the business communities and the civil society.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Business
  • Society
  • Community

• There are certain songs that just stick around and do something that transcends whatever time they were written in. Through different eras, people are able to impart different meaning to the song, and they become part of some sort of consciousness.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• I can't cook to save my life.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Save

• I have always believed that if you need to take your clothes off to get your man, you've begun to lose the battle. If you pull it off right, you can do it in a very classy way... Being sexy is about suggestion; it's about the tease. It's not about being obvious and forcing yourself out in the open. That takes all the fun out of being a woman.

  

  Bipasha Basu
  • Fun
  • Sexy
  • Classy

• How hard or easy it is to raise kids, especially while working, is a big part of people's well-being everywhere.

  

  Pamela Druckerman
  • People
  • Kids

• If you want to be good at anything, sometimes you have to walk the edge.

  

  Don Sutton
  • Good
  • Walk
  • Edge

• You have to be able to improvise and respond to what's going on around you. Then you might get a good piece of work done.

  

  Ry Cooder Buena Vista Social Club
  • Work
  • Respond
  • Improvise

• Vocally and stylistically, we'd have different kinds of songs come on the radio, and people didn't realize it was the same band. A lot of the time, a casual fan would come see us and go, 'I didn't know that you guys did that song. I didn't know that was you!' That was us!

  

  Steve Lukather Toto
  • People
  • Band
  • Songs

• Gold is a great thing to sew into your garments if you're a Jewish family in Vienna in 1939, but I think civilized people don't buy gold, they invest in productive businesses.

  

  Charlie Munger
  • People
  • Great
  • Family