Vance Packard Quotes

The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly.

Vance Packard

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 22, 1914 - December 12, 1996

Topics

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You get into sports with the idea that you want to win. If you aren't trying to win, what's the point in being involved? Once you do get involved, you realize the team draws so much from the community, and it would be nothing without the support of it. You've got to give back. It needs to be a two-way street.

Jerry Reinsdorf

CommunitySportsSupportTeamWin

People don't know how hard it is to have your own business.

Suge Knight

BusinessPeopleKnowHardOwnYour

Want to learn to eat a lot? Here it is: Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.

Tony Robbins

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I know I'm a really good mother. I know it. I'm a really good mother.

Rosie O'Donnell

GoodMotherKnowGood MotherReally

Some of our system of mass incarceration really has to be traced back to the law-and-order movement that began in the 1950s, in the 1960s.

Michelle Alexander

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So I am happy to have fans, especially if it enables me to keep working. And I am really grateful when people respond to my work.

Julia Stiles

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'Hold Me' was a nightmare! It was the middle of the desert in Palm Springs, in the height of summer. I don't know what possessed us to do that. But we sometimes do crazy things.

Christine McVie

MeCrazyDesertSummerSometimes

One of my all-time favourite guitarists is, in fact, a bassist - John Entwistle from The Who. He's one of my all-time favourites, the way he kind of expanded. I mean, he could have been a lead guitarist and been one of the best guitarists in the world. He wasn't even bass player; he was a bass guitarist, and he took the bass to another level.

Bradley Wiggins

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I have to be honest with you: I'm a huge fan of Conan O'Brien.

Ashlan Gorse Cousteau

YouHonestTo Be HonestFanHuge Fan

Words can be like baseball bats when used maliciously.

Sydney Madwed

WordsBaseballUsedLikeBats

If you shell a military base and happen to kill civilians, you have not committed a war crime; if you deliberately target cities and towns, you have.

Sebastian Junger

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Having had to live through a period of integration into another country a number of years ago, I am keenly aware of the negative implications of stereotyping and the significant efforts required to undo its effects.

Sergio Marchionne

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