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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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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I'm nearly blind. I can hardly see. But I'm taking some herbs. Something quacky.
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If men are in a state in which they find it hard to be weaned from their own ways and choose rather to serve the pleasures of the flesh than to serve the Lord, and refuse to accept the Gospel life, there is no common ground between me and them.
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They wanted me to do movies and television when I was very young, and it was a big temptation, but I really thought the only way I could learn the profession was on the stage.
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Anonymity would be a fantastic umbrella. I don't like intrusion.
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An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journeys.
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You can't tell a millionaire's son from a billionaire's.
