Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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The reasons kids get into trouble in one way or another is because - Who ever told them they were special?
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I've never left them to go do a film. No, we all go together. I could never leave them. My kids are my whole world.
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As a unique person, I was bullied badly as a teen.
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There have been recorded cases of people learning how to fly a plane after playing a flight simulator, but there's never been a case of someone learning to fight by playing 'Tekken.'
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I'm not shy about trying to find what truth there is in any genre, whether that be an action piece, a sci-fi piece, a small indie film, or a play. I'm open to it all.
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There are a lot of people in Congress who would never have made a great career or fortune in any other profession. But after they spend a while hanging out with the rich guys, they begin to feel they've been undervalued, and that an eventual seven-figure income as a lobbyist isn't just an opportunity, it's their due.
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It was all devastating. I'd never dealt with losing anyone close to me, and I didn't know where to put it in my life. I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.
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There's a lot of stress... but once you get in the car, all that goes out the window.
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While Romney has an overall deficit with women voters, his biggest disadvantage is with college educated women - wherever they work, at home, in an office, a store or a factory.
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Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.
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God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
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The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.'
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Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.
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The expectation was that 'True Confessions' would be my first published book, but that didn't happen. After it was rejected by every publisher in New York and Canada, I shoved it in a closet and went on to write and publish my next three books.
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Your belief system saturates the space around you.
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The level of confidence women are able to build in women-only groups is important.
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The friends I knew who tutored were well paid for work that seemed far less grueling than waitressing or late-night newspaper copy editing or all the other side gigs I attempted in my early twenties.
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The ability to recognize opportunities and move in new - and sometimes unexpected - directions will benefit you no matter your interests or aspirations. A liberal arts education is designed to equip students for just such flexibility and imagination.
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I just loved the whole idea of being an actor.
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Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on others to find out how one is doing.
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I have been smashed and put back together so many times nothing works right. Nothing is where it should be, heavy thumping in my shoulder where my heart now beats.
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You were sick, but now you're well, and there's work to do.
