Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
Jack London -
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.
Iqbal Quadir -
All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.
Sallust -
Summer has always been my favorite season. I feel happier.
Zooey Deschanel -
I've never supported one penny of tuition increases.
Larry Hogan -
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.
R. J. Cutler
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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.
Katey Sagal -
I thought, 'I've been doing this for 16 years professionally. I have a window where I want to play leading parts.'
Mahershala Ali -
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.
Majora Carter -
I am so far more secure and more grounded and more know who I am than when I was in my 20s.
Iman -
I was working for the CIA and prohibited from speaking publicly.
Valerie Plame -
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.
Karolyn Grimes
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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.
Octavio Paz -
I was paid to read Western economic texts. In a way, the regime paid for their own undermining.
Vaclav Klaus -
I've been through a lot of beef with other singers, but it's all verbal.
Daddy Yankee -
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.
Barbara Corcoran -
A little rain will fillThe lily's cup which hardly moists the field.
Rain -
The 14 points for quality control apply anywhere, to small organizations as well as to large ones...:
W. Edwards Deming
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My mom insisted on multigrain bread and never allowed soda in the house.
Vin Diesel -
I didn't really even think of recording under my own name for a long time. I thought, 'I've got the rest of my life to do that.'
Jack White The White Stripes -
I'm really proud of 'Cars.' 'Cars,' when it first came out, got probably the most mediocre reviews of a Pixar film.
John Lasseter -
I enjoy seeing other Indian musicians - old and young - coming to Europe and America and having some success. I'm happy to have contributed to that.
Ravi Shankar -
Everybody's shaking in his boots, so don't be bluffed.
Kurt Vonnegut