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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You CAN have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
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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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I've just come back from Mississippi and over there when you talk about the West Bank they think you mean Arkansas.
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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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You are just your intelligence.
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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'll remind you all, however, that for government, existence is a privilege, not a right.
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You're water. We're the millstone. You're wind. We're dust blown up into shapes. You're spirit. We're the opening and closing of our hands. You're the clarity. We're the language that tries to say it. You're joy. We're all the different kinds of laughing.
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The communitarians may say you've been enjoying too much individual freedom, and that you must give up some of that for the benefit of the community. But they really mean that they want more power over your life - to force you to subsidize, obey and conform to their choices.
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Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.
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There are evil people, and I don't even want to hear those guys speak.
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You can't tell a millionaire's son from a billionaire's.
