Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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Everywhere I go, I will make a good payday. But we got to choose the right opponent and the right time and the right venue.
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I did a lot of little girl groups here and there just to get more comfortable on stage. When you're in girl groups, it's a lot different because if you mess up, there's someone on stage to back you up, and finally I got to a point where I knew I could do it on my own.
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I think people are able to relate to my appearance. They think of me as the girl next door.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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I think change needs to be egoless. It's not about my leaving my fingerprints or a legacy. It's more important to be part of a process by rolling up your sleeves, being on the ground, initiating projects, starting campaigns - you know, building stuff.
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A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
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I stuff animals I find; I do roadkill. They're strangely fun to have. They're like easy-to-control pets.
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We need to get the corporate money out of the political system and return democracy to the people.
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Multicultural markets are nuanced but not alien.
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Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.
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It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life?
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When the iPhone came out, every CIO in America said, 'You're not bringing that into our corporate environment,' my CIO included.
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The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.
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I'm not that materialistic. I like nice clothes and that, but I don't spend lots of money on stuff. I'm not really into TV, I don't have an iPod, I've got a gramophone.
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I think Cate Blanchett is fabulous - she just shines in everything she does - and I'm a big Susan Sarandon fan.
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I have a record of wanting to make sure that campaigns are open and financing is fair, but it can't just be one sided.
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Women want to drive and they are taking actual steps towards that.
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Transcendental meditation is something that can be defined as a means to do what one wants to do in a better way, a right way, for maximum results.
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Paris 1933 - 1944 with its wonderful (intense soft) light had relaxed my palette - there were other colors, other entirely new forms, and some that I had used years earlier. Naturally I did all this unconsciously.
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Fortunately, I don't spend too much time reading or worrying about what people have to say, but the goal for me throughout this whole process - throughout my whole life - is to try to be happy.
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For the first few years of my life my mom used to cut my hair so there were a lot of bowl-cut hair styles.
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I can't deny I'm a better ex-president than I was a president.
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My last words? 'Life is no way to treat an animal, not even a mouse.'
