Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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Warren and I are friends, but working with him had been difficult.
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Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
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Politics is the art of the next best.
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I'm a motivational speaker.
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You aren't ill: it is just that you are made of second-rate materials.
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I was very lucky. Things happened, both bad and good, but I never got into real, deep trouble. But it wore me down. By the time I was 18, I was done. I didn't want to live the life any more. I needed to develop past the point that busking takes you to.
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I write in freehand equivalents because measuring, to me, takes away from the creative process of cooking. Two turns of the pan with EVOO is about two tablespoons.
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A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
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I don't like gurus. I don't like people who ask you to follow or believe. I like people who ask you to think independently.
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What's so wonderful about 'The Walking Dead' is that we're able to explore human nature in its most depraved as well as its most humanitarian in each episode.
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I needed a lot of the good things that church provided. But as I grew older, it became increasingly hard for me to rationalize the importance of church in my life with the beliefs that it required that were at odds with modern science.
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While I'm working, I stick with music that won't distract me - the dub stylings of Scientist and King Tubby, maybe some Beethoven string quartets.
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I give strong advice, but I don't expect it to be followed.
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To my mind, the most important aspect of the Nobel Awards is that they bring home to the masses of the peoples of all nations, a realization of their common interests. They carry to those who have no direct contact with science the international spirit.
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I open the debate… The 2nd verse of New Slaves is the best rap verse of all time….meaning … OF ALL TIME IN THE HISTORY OF RAP MUSIC, PERIOD
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It is common knowledge to every schoolboy and even every Bachelor of Arts,That all sin is divided into two parts.One kind of sin is called a sin of commission, and that is very important And it is what you are doing when you are doing something you oughtn't...
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India missed the Industrial Revolution; it cannot afford to miss the Computer Revolution.
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The division of labor among nations is that some specialize in winning and others in losing.
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When it comes to being slaves to fashion, American managers make adolescent girls look like rugged individualists.
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If, as they say, the threat of the hangman's noose has a powerful way of focusing one's attention, the same can be said of pregnancy.
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The thirst for vengeance was the beautiful nature which Homer imitated.
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Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.
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Ideas or the lack of them can cause disease.
