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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You hear certain things, negative things, all the time that aren't true, but you never hear about the positive.
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Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
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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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God does say He will graciously entertain our prayers. He says that if we exercise faith, and if our request is in accordance with His will, He will hear us.
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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 have never applied for a share in Tehelka.
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The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
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There is - and always will be - the legacy of chattel slavery in this nation, an obsession with racial and gender differences, but I think that, at its best, this nation is capable of creating standards for itself and reaching towards those standards.
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Even the pandemic flu of 1918 only killed one to two percent of the people who were infected.
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I don't have any great ambition to go out and make money. But I am still fascinated in starting up businesses and starting it in a way and running in a way that I want to do it.
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I can write ten or twelve screenplays in the time it takes me to write one novel. This allows me to offload all of my stories. But it's also not as creatively fulfilling.
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Ideas or the lack of them can cause disease.
