Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
Let us devote to unselfishness the frenzy we once gave gold and underpants.
Kurt Vonnegut
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I'm not sure how to describe my style. A lot of my work is dark and looks a bit sad, which is strange because I'm such a smiley, over-the-top positive guy who wears gold shoes most days.
Aaron Huey
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I'm just glad my gold medal's at home, because I'd hate to try to win another.
Caitlyn Jenner
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The euro is a hybrid of a fixed exchange-rate regime, like the 1980s ERM or the 1930s gold standard, and a state currency.
Yanis Varoufakis
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In 1925, when Britain went back to the gold standard, that was supported by the Conservative Party, the Labour Party, the Bank of England, the civil service, the CBI, the TUC, the Times, the Economist; that consensus was very strong.
Ed Balls
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When you're an actor, you just hope you get a job to go to.
Kate Fleetwood
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'Witches of East End' is certainly wild, and so are a lot of other shows these days. But 'Twin Peaks' still holds the gold medal for strange. I think we'll hang onto that for all of TV eternity!
Madchen Amick
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Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
Samuel Johnson
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I haven't let the gold medal out of my sight; it sleeps next to me in bed.
Magdalena Neuner
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The only thing I really, really want is for the U.S. to win again. Just to win another team gold. And, of course I would really want to win an all-around gold.
Carly Patterson
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A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
Samuel Butler
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All men cannot go to college, but some men must; every isolated group or nation must have its yeast, must have, for the talented few, centers of training where men are not so mystified and befuddled by the hard and necessary toil of earning a living as to have no aims higher than their bellies and no God greater than Gold.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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For some reason, we stopped getting gold stars at some age. It's time to bring them back.
Ze Frank
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When people talk about people who are optimistic about gold, they call them 'gold bugs.' A bug is an insect. I don't call equity bugs 'cockroaches.' Do you understand? There is already a negative connotation with the expression of 'gold bug.'
Marc Faber
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The Olympics is a special event and winning is very important. For me as a world record holder and world champion, the only thing I am missing is the Olympic gold medal and that is what I want to achieve in my career.
David Rudisha
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What a fine-looking thing is war!
Yet, dress it as we may, dress and feather it, daub it with gold, huzza it, and sing swaggering songs about it,--what is it, nine times out of ten, but murder in uniform!
Douglas Jerrold
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I Skype my mum every day. Everyone in my family does creative things, so it's nice to have that support.
Tali Lennox
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Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.
Walter Savage Landor
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Let us devote to unselfishness the frenzy we once gave gold and underpants.
Kurt Vonnegut
