Vance Packard Quotes
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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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I believe people should live full lives and not settle for anything less.
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I enjoy my food. I like to grill; I do that a lot. I like meat and have big dinners - steak, red meat splurges, prime cuts.
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A manuscript under way always gave me something to do; only while enduring the aimlessness between books was I truly glum.
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It seems to me the most important issue in the LGBT community is the right to be queer-the right to be free of the heterosexual assumption.
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Drawings help people to work out intricate relationships between parts.
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There ain't nothin' to dyin', really. You just get tired. You kind of drift away.
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Rock and roll might be summed up as monotony tinged with hysteria.
