Vance Packard Quotes
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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
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Thanks to the Japanese and Geronimo, John Wayne became a millionaire.
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When you are dining with a demon, you got to have a long spoon.
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You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.
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The beautiful thing about working with new instruments is that you sort of approach it with a fresh perspective.
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If you're going on a plane journey, you're more likely to take one of my stories than 'Finnegan's Wake.'
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Anything that's given to you can be taken away from you at any time.
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When you negotiate with terrorists, you get more terror.
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When you do scenes that are just exposition, they feel false.
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If you're human, you've had phases in your life when things are in flux.
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You can't try to be authentic. You either are or you aren't.
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In sport, if you want to be the best you have to compete against the best - I would much rather have come tenth and be judged against everyone than come first and be judged against just a few.
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We must recognize our own behavioral errors. To be blunt, you are not likely to become a cognitive Zen master anytime soon. But a little enlightenment could keep you from making some common investing errors.
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When there's an authentic mystery, as opposed to just a question being asked, that's what makes you lean forward.
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You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
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I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.
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Once you do one bad guy, usually all you get offered is bad guys.
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No one teaches you how to be a famous person; no one teaches you how to be a role model. It's something you have to do on your own.
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Don't ever forget two things I'm going to tell you. One, don't believe everything that's written about you. Two, don't pick up too many checks.
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Maybe self-publishing is going to be an extra step added to publishing. Maybe what's going to happen is you self-publish a book, someone notices it - an agent? - and it goes from there into the traditional sphere.
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I don't have any real "process." Some people in Nashville go in like an assembly line. They're able to go and write. My son runs a publishing company. He has writers that come down. They get together in a room with the people that actually make appointments, and write - which is great. I can't do that very well.
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Turkeys are misunderstood. Once I adopted turkeys, I understood this large bird to be a great companion.
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You go to a pop concert or a classical concert but there's nothing in between.
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You can't tell a millionaire's son from a billionaire's.
