Vance Packard Quotes
New pressures are causing ever more people to find their main satisfaction in their consumptive role rather than in their productive role. And these pressures are bringing forward such traits as pleasure-mindedness, self-indulgence, materialism, and passivity as conspicuous elements of the American character.
Quotes to Explore
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I have to wear two sports bras when I do my cardio. It takes a lot to hold these puppies up!
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When I first got married to my husband, he had boxes full of photos of my two stepsons, ages 5 and 8 at the time, and I put them together in some little albums and wrote notes about how happy I was that they were a part of my life.
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'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
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I don't do detoxes or cleanses; they don't really work for me.
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Linda Hunt is so good and so sweet. She is a Tony Award nominee and won an Oscar. Pearls just come out of her mouth.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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One of the first major storylines that 'All My Children' featured was Erica Kane, a rebellious daughter, and her mother, sort of a matriarchal type, who was trying to guide her daughter to a safer place.
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I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
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I always drive like a madman.
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I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications.
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The majority of meetings should be discussions that lead to decisions.
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I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.
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One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
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I didn't feel like I was meant to be a nurse or a secretary.
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I make big objects that are simple, bright and clear, kind of ironic but hopefully funny because I love the shapes, and I get inspiration from toys and books, and I believe in art for everyone.
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Workplaces still operate like it's 1962 and one person is always at home, and they are not very good at adjusting for the fact that a majority of women work and take care of children.
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When I say I'm an authentic conservative, it's because when you look at who I am and where I come from, it'd be a lot easier to have grown up a Democrat.
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The laws of physics should allow us to arrange things molecule by molecule and even atom by atom, and at some point it was inevitable that we would develop a technology that would let us do this.
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When I cover the square surface with rectangles, it lightens the weight of the square. Destroys its power.
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I think character is permanent, and issues are transient.
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Our American story, for generations, is of a people who seek to move forward. A people who look at a mountain and worry not about the tough climb ahead, but dream about the view from the summit.
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New pressures are causing ever more people to find their main satisfaction in their consumptive role rather than in their productive role. And these pressures are bringing forward such traits as pleasure-mindedness, self-indulgence, materialism, and passivity as conspicuous elements of the American character.
