Vance Packard Quotes
If the person you are trying to diagnose politically is some sort of intellectual, the chances are two to one he is a Democrat.
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My first 'Tonight Show' was just one of those things - I mean this seriously - a cosmic, meant-to-be coming together of circumstance. You walk out there to do your first 'Tonight Show': Is the audience going to be hot? Are you going to be on fire? It's like an athlete: Are you going to have your moves at a peak?
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The world is too violent right now.
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In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels, to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that's very expensive.
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Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora... The record companies aren't making the kind of music that they used to make. Artists make their money on tours, not from album sales.
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What I say or do here won't matter much, nor should it.
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I went to high school in Los Angeles, and I grew up riding horses, so that was kind of my life. I always wanted to act.
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Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.
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When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.
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When I look at myself, I'd like not to have hair on the top of the ceiling.
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I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either.
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When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.
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Be skeptical of concepts that divorce war from its political nature, particularly those that promise fast, cheap victory through technology.
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If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.
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If it's nice out, I swim pretty much every day for about half an hour. I have a great pool; it's very private and not too many people use it.
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From that time on, I always had the studios on my neck.
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When you don't know how to cook, you just say, 'I need something quick,' and then you fry something up. Now that I cook, I think, 'Do I want to have fried fish, baked fish, or grilled fish?'
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There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
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My childhood ambition was to be an Olympic swimmer like my aunt, but that died a quick death when I discovered other sports. I swam very competitively till I was 15, then I swam for fun until I was 18. But athletics remain a very big part of my life.
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There are people I know who won't hurt me. I call them corpses.
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It may be said that the basic characteristic of human behavior in general is that humans personally influence their relations with the environment and through that environment personally change their behavior, subjugating it to their control.
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Whenever I see a nighttime picture of Earth from space, with its glowing lights, I am stirred by its beauty.
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We'd visit an art museum in Houston, or a spectacular shoreline vista in Oregon, or attend a political lecture in Boston. And so I found myself getting a special kind of education just witnessing Bill's grasp of what makes our society tick and how business gets done.
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If the person you are trying to diagnose politically is some sort of intellectual, the chances are two to one he is a Democrat.
