Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
Our awareness is all that is alive and maybe sacred in any of us. Everything else about us is dead machinery.Kurt Vonnegut
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I think it's a lot harder for the pros to have a long career in ice dance and in pairs. It seems the singles have a little bit of a longer career.
Nancy Kerrigan -
It seems Palestinians can't win. The language of peace negotiations has always been predicated on a representation that Palestinians are violent and that is why Israel behaves as it does.
Randa Abdel-Fattah -
The Supreme Court is having a hard time integrating schools. What chance do I have to integrate audiences?
Nat King Cole -
Despite a certain amount of rhetoric, such as 'the second American Revolution,' there is a fair consensus about which events in the affairs of a people can rightly be called revolutions. It is also clear that such revolutions are proper objects of study for the historian.
Ian Hacking -
It's where you come from that's the strange, exotic, quirky, mad place.
Irvine Welsh -
My mother is a proud Brazilian. I love visiting my family in Rio; the city and its people are so vibrant and amazing.
Harley Viera-Newton
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A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I don't go to church any more, but I think that Catholicism is rather like the brand they use on cattle: I feel so formed in that Catholic mould that I don't think I could adopt any other form of spirituality. I still get feelings of consolation about churches.
Rachel Cusk -
America has always been a land of diversity, basically made up of immigrants, and that is something I want to see continued. It's something I'm proud of when people think of America.
Halima Aden -
If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
My experience with the Junior League, when I worked in Philadelphia for four years in reference to children's things, is that whenever they were asked they responded. They always responded with sincerity, and they did a good job.
C. Everett Koop -
I can't bear looking in the mirror - I guess that's why my hair looks like this.
Lance Bass NSYNC
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What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.
W. H. Auden -
The best thing that happens to us is when a great company gets into temporary trouble... We want to buy them when they're on the operating table. 'Homespun Wisdom from the 'Oracle of Omaha'' Businessweek (5 July 1999)
Warren Buffett -
If I could dwellWhere IsrafelHath dwelt, and he where I,He might not sing so wildly wellA mortal melody,While a bolder note than this might swellFrom my lyre within the sky.
Edgar Allan Poe -
Henry had been around long enough to know better than to disagree. But he forgot to implement.
Jack McDevitt -
I miss the lack of melody in current music as well. I mean, a lot of people think I'm crazy for liking Creed and I like them purely because they sing! I mean, the singer of Creed sings like the guy from Pearl Jam, very close kind of voice. But I like the fact that Creed sing. I don't care if they're a Bible band, Satan band…
Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath -
Our hope is that whosoever is in power, manages this country consistently for all the potential the country has.
Indra Nooyi
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I get asked to read new works a lot, in the hope that I will give a quotation and I will only give a 'puff' for a book I truly love.
Peter James -
I've heard expressions like, 'Are you good in bed?' What does that even mean? For me, good in bed means sleeping seven hours. Undisturbed! If I get eight hours, that means I'm amazing!
Karan Johar -
The key to success is to find things that you have a passion for and would enjoy doing, even if you weren't getting paid to do it.
Andre Iguodala -
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
Carl Rogers -
Our awareness is all that is alive and maybe sacred in any of us. Everything else about us is dead machinery.
Kurt Vonnegut