Vance Packard Quotes
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Imperfection is perfection.
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There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.
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I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.
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I am a little obsessed with surprise kitty.
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I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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I came to acting in a very circuitous way.
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I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
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I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.
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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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No one wants to work with a difficult star. I want to be the nice guy.
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Sometimes the only way you can feel good about yourself is by making someone else look bad. And I'm tired of making other people feel good about themselves.
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It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.
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My 'Big Bang Theory' costar Johnny Galecki went off the grid. He bought a huge ranch and goes there every weekend. He keeps telling me to do the same thing, but I don't know if I'm that committed. The Valley is as far off the grid as I'm going to go.
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I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.
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I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
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Syria is important because it lies at the heart of a region critical to U.S. security, a region that is home to friends and partners and one of our closest allies. It is important because the Syrian regime possesses stores of chemical weapons that they have recently used on a large scale and that we cannot allow to fall into terrorists' hands.
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Our need for that exterior god that sits up there and judges us... will diminish and eventually disappear.
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Woodstock didn't define a generation because everyone showed up or those who did were a perfectly representative sample. It defined a generation because, for a few days, it bottled its peculiar zeitgeist.
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You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can't, you do the next best thing. You back up but you don't give up.
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As the Right doubles down on anti-anti-Trumpism, it will find itself goaded into defending and rationalizing ever more outrageous conduct just as long as it annoys CNN and the Left.
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I'm the kind of person, if I don't like you, unfortunately you know that.
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Always in England if you had the type of brain that was capable of understanding T.S. Eliot's poetry or Kant's logic, you could be sure of finding large numbers of people who would hate you violently.
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Rock and roll might be summed up as monotony tinged with hysteria.
