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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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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You can't try to be authentic. You either are or you aren't.
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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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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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For if you train hard and responsibly your confidence surges to a maximum.
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The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
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When in doubt, you bring in relatives. Nepotism is a part of my work.
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People say, like, 'Are you a regular person?' 'Well, I'm not a robot, if that's what you're asking, I really am a person.'
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Go outside! I mean, even leaves from a park are beautiful in a clear glass vase. I'd rather see that than fake anything any day.
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A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something wrong with this fellow.
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I'm the kind of person that responds strongly to a challenge.
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There has to be a social commitment, a social consciousness that joins men together. On the basis of their coming together, they do not transgress against themselves and they do not transgress against others.
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You can't tell a millionaire's son from a billionaire's.
