Vance Packard Quotes
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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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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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Who co-founded Google? Sergey Brin, a Russian-born Jew whose family fled anti-semitism in the Soviet Union to settle here and who considers himself a refugee.
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It was not me failing that I was scared of. It was failing those people back home who believe in you. They only delivered the newspaper once a week where I lived in Oklahoma, and those people lived and died with the box score of my games.
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I have my loyalty to the team of my youth. Everyone I knew was a Red Sox fan. The team that I grew up with was constantly the underdog but managed to prevail.
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The band can't exist without the crowd, and the crowd wouldn't be there if it wasn't for the band, and it really is something magical that people need.
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Maturity transformation is a central part of the economic function of banks and many other types of financial intermediaries.
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Back in the early '90s, I started going to Nashville to do a lot of co-writes. One of the first people I met there was Keith Follese. Keith and his wife Adrienne are both songwriters, and we wrote some songs together.
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Rock and roll might be summed up as monotony tinged with hysteria.
