Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
If you are an American, you must allow all ideas to circulate freely in your community, not merely your own.Kurt Vonnegut
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I once said, 'Steve Jobs is the American Xavier Niel,' but that was humour.
Xavier Niel -
I think that Richard Nixon is a great man and that he is very dedicated to what he does. I had the pleasure of meeting him when I attended the Republican National Convention in Miami. You can really tell that he is willing to go out of his way to help the American people.
Laraine Day -
At this point, American workers are pretty respectful of the bosses they loathe.
Ted Rall -
The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.
Fabrizio Moreira -
In committing an estimated 3,000 U.S. forces to join international Ebola relief efforts in West Africa, President Obama seems to be fulfilling the plans of highly influential progressive groups who seek to transform the American military into more of a social-work organization.
Aaron Klein -
An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.
A. J. Liebling
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Contrary to all the blather we here about the unique goodness of the American people or our religious heritage or anything else, the one thing that set this country apart from all others was the Bill of Rights.
Harry Browne -
Until Eleanor Roosevelt, there was only one or two First Ladies in all of American history who made an impact, who people could even have recognized or identified. And it's really only been since Jackie Kennedy that there's been this idea that the family life of the president is such a central thing.
Gail Collins -
I have met hundreds of young people doing just what George Romney did: using a hand up in tough times to become part of the American Dream.
R. T. Rybak -
Israeli interests are not necessarily in harmony with the American interests.
Bashar al-Assad -
An American orchestra doesn't want to play more than it has to. I respectfully disagree with that attitude.
Zubin Mehta -
I think there will always be need of trusted voices in the investment community, but what the ICO markets are showing is that the world has incredible demand for future-looking projects!
Adam Draper
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I'm not good enough to flip in and out of my Brit accent to my American accent.
Damian Lewis -
Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.
Barbara Kingsolver -
I'm married to an American. I work for a company that is, you know, its headquarters in the U.S.
Wael Ghonim -
Despite all the criticisms that have been leveled at the comics community, both in terms of fans and creators, I have always felt more comfortable and accepted in the comics community than I have in any other medium of publishing that I've had the pleasure of working in.
G. Willow Wilson -
We really only came around to accepting and integrating the propositional dimension of identity into a concept of ourselves at the time of the American Revolution.
Samuel P. Huntington -
Austin is almost a million people, but it still feels like a relatively small town. Everybody knows each other. Or at least everyone in the filmmaking community.
Gabriel Luna
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Night raids are only the first step in the American detention process in Afghanistan. Suspects are usually sent to one of a series of prisons on U.S. military bases around the country. There are officially nine such jails, called Field Detention Sites in military parlance.
Anand Gopal -
The drys seemingly are afraid of the truth. Why not take inventory and ascertain the true conditions. Let us not leave it to the charge of an antiprohibition organization, or to any other private association, let us have an official survey and let the American people know what is going on. A complete and honest and impartial survey would reveal incredible conditions.
Fiorello LaGuardia -
In all of my books, I've emphasized that the fundamental difference between civilized and indigenous ways of being is that, for even the most open-minded of the civilized, listening to the natural world is a metaphor.
Derrick Jensen -
As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.
Yo-Yo Ma -
Worry is the stomach's worst poison.
Alfred Nobel -
If you are an American, you must allow all ideas to circulate freely in your community, not merely your own.
Kurt Vonnegut