Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
I left the Middle West for Schenectady because the General Electric Company offered me a more congenial, better paying job than did anyone else.
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I can't get my knickers in a twist about my age and ageing in an industry that caters to the ids of 14-year-olds.
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By 1892, enlightenment had progressed to the point where the Salem trials were simply an embarrassing blot on the history of New England. They were a part of the past that was best forgotten: a reminder of how far the human race had come in two centuries.
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A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.
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To gain strength in our struggles, we must have a positive perspective of the principles in the plan of salvation. We must realize that we have a personal Savior whom we can trust and turn to in our times of need.
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He who gives love, receives love.
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No decent career was ever founded on a public.
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I love lamb shank. It's my favorite thing. You don't have it in America. It's a younger meat - it just falls off the bone - it's kind of like a roast. I really like blackened cod too.
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I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad.
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Your man Daddy Yankee, some black and white people who know what's going on in the 'hood and the clubs are supporting him and loving him. But he's speaking Spanish, and he's speaking directly to the Latino people, and the people who know the language really dig it.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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Tar sands oil is the dirtiest fuel on Earth. Because producing it consumes so much energy, a gallon of tar sands crude generates 17 percent more carbon pollution than conventional crude oil.
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Project Xanadu is essentially my trademark. It was originally, and has returned to my arms as that.
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Imperialist enterprise draws political consequences.
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I thought it was a really good contrast to have a really sweet, sincere, church girl sitting next to the church lady who seemed kind of, you know, over the top.
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A sociopath doesn't warm up their environment, doesn't make it cozy. They don't have to; when they're not performing, when they're not manipulating, when they're all alone, there's nothing.
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There's no religious test in our country, and there shouldn't be. We're an open, competitive society.
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The motivation should come from regulatory enforcement, but enforcement is weak, and environmental litigation is near to impossible. So there's an urgent need for extensive public participation to generate another kind of motivation.
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It's true that the more you put in the more you get out and that has to be there I think, If you aren't really hooked on your instrument this job would be a hell on earth but if you are, it's the best.
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I went through college while working a full-time manual-labor job, and I don't regret a minute of it; it was a great learning experience.
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One of the hardest things about my job is that there kind of is no one rulebook that applies to all situations.
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The question is not really about a shift to the economic cone where officers are writing about the balance of payments and the need for economic stabilization.
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I get to fish a lot of wild and wonderful places on tour.
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I left the Middle West for Schenectady because the General Electric Company offered me a more congenial, better paying job than did anyone else.
