Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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Younger customers are the future, but older customers have the money. So you need both: one for the present, and the other for the future.
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The great love of my life is music.
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Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.
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We are in a world that is quite extremist and extremism makes more noise. Normality does not sell.
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Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.
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The negotiation of city space has been made more difficult with the idea that redevelopment is an improvement for some vague future - but it's never like that, is it? Once you get there, for economic reasons you have to generate the next project - so you're immediately starting to dig up something else, and so it goes on.
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The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.
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I come with bad genetics, personally.
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My parents are artists and have always instilled great pride in understanding of various backgrounds.
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I feel so much pride to represent my community and be Latino. No doubt about it, above my career and sales being a Latino comes first.
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Urban Fantasy is a subgenre pretty much designed for teenagers. It's pretty twee, but I adore it. I've been trying to come up with an Urban Fantasy comic ever since I'd read the Nancy Collins 'Sonja Blue' series years ago.
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The truth is, as long as nuclear weapons exist, we are not safe.
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Scientists do stand on the shoulders of giants, just as do writers. Conversely, in the arts we do make discoveries. We do refine our tools. So I am arguing with, or at least playing with, the idea that art never improves.
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Even in art, there is no light without shadows, and no shadows are cast without some light. Even the shadow of Adolf Hitler is accompanied by some light.
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The more you obey your conscience, the more your conscience will demand of you.
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The mighty Mahmud, Allah-breathing Lord That all the misbelieving and black Horde Of Fears and Sorrows that infest the Soul Scatters before him with his whirlwind Sword.
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Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
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One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures.
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When I was real young I wanted to play baseball. I really loved playing center field, but that was never anything I was really ever that good at. I played up until I was in ninth grade.
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It's like all guys want to do is make a dunk, grab their shirt and yell out and scream - they could be down 30 points but that's what they do. Okay, so you made a dunk. Get back down the floor on defense!
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Everyone has their dates. For me, it's 1991. I can place every memory of my life either before or after this date. It's the year I became an adult. My mother died, and I created my company shortly thereafter.
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Contemporary audiences are interested in watching characters navigate ethical challenges and moral dilemmas.
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No matter our age, circumstances, or abilities, each one of us can create something remarkable of his life.
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Fish! Fish! Fish!
