Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
History is merely a list of surprises. … It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again. Please write that down.Kurt Vonnegut
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The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.
H. Rap Brown -
It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
Kareena Kapoor Khan -
I think shoppers are looking for newness and creativity. Look at C. Wonder, for instance. They're dancing in our stores. We don't believe in retail like retail was done in the past. We believe in disrupting the whole environment, offering them amazing value in an amazing package of fun, excitement and whimsy.
J. Christopher Burch -
My father, I think he played percussion in high school. My mother played piano when she was very young, but only for a brief while. I don't think she had a great teacher. In any case, neither of them were really into music at a young age.
Aaron Diehl -
I am glad that Wimbledon is my last slam. I love the atmosphere and courts of SW19, and it is an addiction, which I will find tough to give up.
Mahesh Bhupathi -
I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
Nathan Bedford Forrest
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There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
Oscar Wilde -
I have been doing so much. Speaking engagements... producing... developing a half-hour sitcom... working on a movie... leading acting workshops all over the world... and hosting 'My Black Is Beautiful,' an empowerment TV show I'm doing on BET for women.
Tasha Smith -
I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unless you're a good comedian, you're never going to be able to play Hamlet properly.
Ian Mckellen -
Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
Aaron Neville -
Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.
Carlo Ratti -
I made a lot of movies that people loved when I was a kid, but I didn't have any real relationship to them.
Gaby Hoffmann
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It's great to design a beautiful, modern, sleek home like you'd see in a magazine. But if it doesn't suit your lifestyle, it's really wasted.
Candice Olson -
Booksellers are the bartenders of the reading world. People share thoughts and interests they keep private from others in their lives.
Victor LaValle -
A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.
Adam Cohen -
If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes care of everything else.
Wayne Huizenga -
I don't mind being described as vanilla in certain ways.
Cal Ripken, Jr. -
Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.
Katee Sackhoff
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In China, there is a long history of the government not revealing information, so it’s difficult for the Chinese people to ever know the truth. It is vital that we try to bring that truth to life.
Ai Weiwei -
When you are organizing a group of people, the first thing that we do is we talk about the history of what other people have been able to accomplish - people that look like them, workers like them, ordinary people, working people - and we give them the list: these are people like yourself; this is what they were able to do in their community.
Dolores Huerta -
No library of American business achievement is complete without the story of Arthur G. Gaston. . . . Black Titan is a long overdue contribution to the recording of not just black history, but American history.
Earl G. Graves, Sr. -
I quite enjoy the lines on my forehead because they show my life. That’s my history and I like to see that in other people. Like this wrinkle is due to some girl who broke my heart. I don’t want to escape it in any way.
Michael Fassbender -
I think if Yao Ming was on my team, we'd probably have a 100 percent chance of winning an NBA championship.
Allen Iverson -
History is merely a list of surprises. … It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again. Please write that down.
Kurt Vonnegut