Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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Working with Rosshan Andrews has been wonderful.
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The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life.
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In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.
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I love oldies just kind of sweet, slinky, Fifties music. The slow stuff. And Billie Holiday.
Nastassja Kinski -
Dior Couture is like art - they are the art pieces of a fashion house. Each piece is unique and made by hand.
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If I'm not interested in a woman, I'm straight-forward. Right after sex, I usually say, 'I can't do this anymore. Thanks for coming over!'
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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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I felt like the world of baseball in 1919 was much closer to what A-ball would be now - guys riding buses, there's no training staff, and there's a lot of paranoia.
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You think your friends have good taste in fashion, until they ask you to wear an ugly bridesmaid dress!
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People are really sick of seeing the winner not win and what the public thinks should happen.
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I grew up admiring Ronald Reagan and Vice President Bush, and if I were old enough, I would have voted for 41. I was glad he won.
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When we played with the Rollins Band, we'd keep songs going until we felt like ending it.
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Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.
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A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.
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I love living in the country, so much so that I'm even surprised by it. I have met lots of interesting people - the community was really welcoming, and I now probably have a more interesting social life than I did in the city.
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Competition got me off the farm and trained me to seek out challenges and to endure setbacks; and in combination with my faith, it sustains me now in my fight with Alzheimer's disease.
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Why, one wonders, does lightning strike in one place rather than another?
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Why does everyone have to pretend to be stupid and not know long words?
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Nothing is more difficult, in my opinion, than to avoid something that fundamentally attracts you.
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The victims of injustice in our world do not need our spasms of passion; they need our long obedience in the same direction - our legs and lungs of endurance; And we need sturdy stores of joy.
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I may have been prejudiced against lawyer members of Congress, having run against one or two and having been threatened politically by a few others, and also because my own professional background was academic, principally in the liberal arts. Good lawyers, I asserted in campaigns, can be found in the yellow pages of the telephone books. Good historians, or political and social philosophers, are not so easily found or classified.
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Their reasons don't mean anything unless I have a choice.
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I now make my living by being impolite. I am clumsy at it.
