Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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Whose leadership, whose judgment, whose values do you want in the White House when that crisis lands like a thud on the Oval Office desk?
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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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I decided to work on things that obsess women because women can't resist things like lace, sequins, animal prints and python.
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You have to remember that Finnish people hate art.
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Google came of age when search was inefficient and cluttered, and made it simple and easy to find what you wanted online.
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Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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To the humble, the Lord has given this promise: "If men come unto me I will show unto them their weakness. I give unto men weakness that they may be humble; and my grace is sufficient for all men that humble themselves before me."
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At one point the driver said, 'For God's sakes, you're rocking the boat back there.' Actually we were; the car was swaying as Dean and I both swayed to the rhythm and the IT of our final excited joy in talking and living to the blank tranced end of all innumerable riotous angelic particulars that had been lurking in our souls all our lives.
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Freedom of the press is the staff of life, for any vital democracy.
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I'm stubborn. I'm hardheaded. I don't do what I don't want to do.
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The great pleasure that comes from reading poets such as Mark Doty and Marianne Moore is the realisation that the essential virtues - compassion, wonder, humility, respect for the mysterious - are far from conventionally heroic.
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And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
