Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
Old Norwegian Proverb: Swedes have short dicks but long memories.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Emotions come first, and in the most direct sense: you first have an emotion and then have a feeling. But also first in the history of the human race, for the ability to have emotions long preceded the ability to have feelings.
Ian Hacking
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He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.
Edith Wharton
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If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The real problem at the moment is that the banks - because of their existing culture, which is frankly anti-business, obsession with short-term trading profits, not focusing on the long term - are throttling the recovery of British industry.
Vince Cable
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Once you understand that Goliath is much weaker than you think he is, and David has superior technology, then you say: why do we tell the story the way we do? It becomes, actually, a far more meaningful and important story in its retelling than in the kind of unsophisticated way we've done it for, I think, too long.
Malcolm Gladwell
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Eddie Murphy was my guy for a long time. My first exposure to 'SNL' was his 'Best Of' VHS, and I would watch it over and over again. He was one of the few people on the show to play with the live elements and engage with the audience.
Taran Killam
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True refuge is that which allows us to be at home, at peace, to discover true happiness. The only thing that can give us true refuge is the awareness and love that is intrinsic to who we are. Ultimately, it's our own true nature.
Tara Brach
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The real trick to auditioning is just letting go of trying to please them. Make it your own. That took me a long time to learn.
Allison Janney
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Jobs, as such, are a relatively new concept. People may have always worked, but until the advent of the corporation in the early Renaissance, most people just worked for themselves. They made shoes, plucked chickens, or created value in some way for other people, who then traded or paid for those goods and services.
Douglas Rushkoff
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Oh why rebuke you him that loves you so? / Lay breath so bitter on your bitter foe.
William Shakespeare
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The vendors seemed comical, so intent were they on their slivers of meaningless profit, all unaware of the desolate ages that lay in their own near future, their own imminent deaths.
Arthur C. Clarke
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Old Norwegian Proverb: Swedes have short dicks but long memories.
Kurt Vonnegut
