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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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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Marx said that he had stood Hegel on his head; often Mr. Horace Gregory has simply stood Pollyana on her head.
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I was a slightly overweight, spiky-fringed, rat's-tailed '80s girl who was just showing up. That's all I've ever really done to get here, just kept showing up. Even when I didn't want to. That's what I do.
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In the 1880s, a weedy Easterner named Owen Wister had something like a nervous breakdown. Wyoming, with its wide-open spaces and healthy pursuits, was prescribed as a cure. Wister was immediately smitten by the taciturn cowboys and the rules imposed upon them by the cattle barons.
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The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another.
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We fed the public a line of deceit, dishonesty, a fabrication of statistics and figures.
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I now make my living by being impolite. I am clumsy at it.
