Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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There are places where writing is acting and acting is writing. I'm not so interested in the divisions. I'm interested in the way things cross over.
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China has an almost infinite need for energy, and frankly, the world would be better off if much of that need goes in the direction of wind power.
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All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.
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Summer has always been my favorite season. I feel happier.
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I've never supported one penny of tuition increases.
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My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile.
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I work in the film business, where schmoozing is an art form, lunch hour lasts from 12:30 until 3, and every meeting takes an hour whether there's an hour's worth of business or not.
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So they've actually - it's not that her character is a singer, but she had ambition to do that at an earlier time in her life. So I've actually sung two or three times now on the show.
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For me, genres are a way for people to easily categorize music. But it doesn't have to define you. It doesn't have to limit you.
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I thought, 'I've been doing this for 16 years professionally. I have a window where I want to play leading parts.'
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To me, charity often is just about giving, because you're supposed to, or because it's what you've always done - or it's about giving until it hurts.
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I am so far more secure and more grounded and more know who I am than when I was in my 20s.
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I was working for the CIA and prohibited from speaking publicly.
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In all, I was in 16 movies, including 'The Bishop's Wife' with Cary Grant, Loretta Young and David Niven; I was in 'Rio Grande' with John Wayne, 'Albuquerque' with Randall Scott, 'Blue Skies' with Bing Crosby and 'Hans Christian Anderson' with Danny Kaye.
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The work of art is always unfaithful to its creator... Art lays at a higher level; it says something more, and almost always, it says something different from what the artist wanted to say.
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I was paid to read Western economic texts. In a way, the regime paid for their own undermining.
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I've been through a lot of beef with other singers, but it's all verbal.
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The best mistake I ever made was believing that I was stupid. It was a childhood thing, but it played out big-time as an adult. It scorned me the rest of my life - in a good way.
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Living is the same thing as dying. Living well is the same thing as dying for others.
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No traveler e'er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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What we prefer to do is operate our investment bank in a way that is like what investment banks used to be, which is a middle man - someone who is here to match people who need capital with people who have capital - and not position ourselves at the center of that by taking big positions on a trading stance.
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Why would you stick someone you love down in a lonely hole in the dirt? Where it's cold, and dirty, and full of bugs?
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Everybody's shaking in his boots, so don't be bluffed.
