Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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What I'm mainly interested in is not having women characters that have to be perfect, obviously. That's something I feel strongly about and have that in every single thing I've ever done.
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Oh, did I tell you I have a cookbook? I have a cookbook deal.
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It's such a joy to talk to a roomful of people who have read my novel and are eager to talk about it.
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Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.
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With experience in boxing, you learn how to be a scientific boxer and how to fight easy.
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The power of celebrity backing has been crucial. I would say that 90 percent of our brand recognition comes from celebrities wearing my pieces.
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I love the business of business; I love the risk raking.
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Vibrating strings in 10 dimensions is just a weird fact... An explanation of that weird fact would tell you why there are 10 dimensions in the first place.
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We flow, we descend, we turn . . . and the eternal dreamerMoves among us like light, like evening air . . .
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I'm certainly proud to be Cuban American, and it's a fantastic opportunity for anybody - regardless of their ethnicity or nationality. It does carry a measure or pride to know where you're from and to know what your roots are.
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They're keeping friction going between people from the East and the West. One thing we all got in common is your color, which is Black and Latino, which is our family.
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I came from a very, very small valley in the middle of South Wales. I grew up there with my father, who's a coal miner, and my mother worked in a normal factory.
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AIDS and malaria and TB are national security issues. A worldwide program to get a start on dealing with these issues would cost about $25 billion... It's, what, a few months in Iraq.
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You have to remember that Finnish people hate art.
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Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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Are you familiar with 9/11? Building 7? You know what was in there? All the Enron stuff. I guess that building went down on its own.
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I know a lot of Americans in Paris who have married Frenchmen. They keep bringing up their experience, the clash of civilizations, the clash of personalities.
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I have a big family. Even though it's only three kids in our family, it's always aunts and uncles and the whole thing.
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Change is good, but in the middle of it, it can be very sad.
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Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning off its ears and minds. And none can say that the response is ill advised.
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We know what the birth of a revolution looks like: A student stands before a tank. A fruit seller sets himself on fire. A line of monks link arms in a human chain. Crowds surge, soldiers fire, gusts of rage pull down the monuments of tyrants, and maybe, sometimes, justice rises from the flames.
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I have a deep respect for the fundamentals of television, the traditions of it, even, but I don't have any reverence for it.
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And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
