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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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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I am happy because I am no longer an author.
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Hardly any of my most memorable meals have been eaten in a restaurant, and definitely none in one of those fancy marble-floored, polished-silver establishments.
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Every time you become confidential with some people, you hear of a new kind of dirty trick.
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Without publicity there can be no public spirit, and without public spirit every nation must decay.
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Public enthusiasm for new advances is a key ingredient in influencing policy-makers to stimulate follow-up work with suitable funding, and it can be achieved far faster now that interested non-specialists can explore new research autonomously and can also be appealed to directly by scientists.
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And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
