Mark Vonnegut Quotes
I didn't like the '60s because it was too important what people who had nothing to do with the war thought about it.
Quotes to Explore
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!
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We're going to lose more species, acidify the oceans more, do damage that it will take millions of years - if not longer - to unwind. Exactly how much damage will we do? How deep will those scars run? We don't know yet. But we will turn the ship.
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The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.
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I'm a world expert on superhero comics. I think maybe only Michael Chabon knows more than me.
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When I wake up at 5 in the morning is it just to jog? Definitely not, I give it all of my efforts.
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The 77 cents that women make for every dollar men earn makes a real difference to our families - families stretching to make every dollar count.
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I have to protect my family and have a life with them that is completely private.
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More often than not, the experience of shooting the movie has been disappointing and the end product has been a mere shadow of what I hoped it would be. But immersing myself in the story - that's what I like best of all.
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It's no surprise that I ended up in sportscasting. I lived this world with my father, Mike Storen. Dad was a sports executive for most of my childhood.
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I've had a few conversations with people who are horrified: who tell me my work is demeaning, is sexist, is negative.
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The money was going to come and go, between a wife and the IRS. The thrill of beating the best field in golf is what will always stay with me.
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Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
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I don't want to put one innocent person to death to put 99 that are guilty to death. So philosophically I'm a tooth-for-tooth guy, but the reality is the death penalty as public policy is flawed.
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I had to read Plato and Kant, and at times I was overwhelmed. But I have always been fearless, and so was Hannah Arendt. She wasn't afraid to speak out when she knew her opinions would not be popular because she believed in the public discourse above all.
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I'm rediscovering Scotland; I'm falling in love with it again.
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When you feel totally alone in your thoughts and feelings, there's someone out there who is going through what you went through, even if it's the strangest, weirdest thing you could think of.
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After all my various relationships I find myself now home alone.
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We're not in the business of taking large operations in the U.S. and moving them overseas.
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The core problem is that the world is full of people who would like to take 99 per cent of the information that's on the Internet, and eliminate 1 per cent. Everyone has their own thing they don't like.
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There is Rio in 2016, but it won't be the same as going to London and hearing 24,000 people - nearly all British - cheering, stamping their feet, and screaming your name.
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I didn't like the '60s because it was too important what people who had nothing to do with the war thought about it.
