Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

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• We pay taxes, and we help the city coffers.

  

  Manuel Moroun
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• It was wrongly assumed that I wished to become some sort of leader among gay activists, whereas in reality I was happier to be a foot soldier.

  

  Ian Mckellen
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• He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
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• I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future.

  

  Oliver Stone
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• War triggers unforeseeable military dynamics and sets off massive political shocks, creating new problems as well as new opportunities.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
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• Political theatre presents an entirely different set of problems. Sermonising has to be avoided at all cost. Objectivity is essential. The characters must be allowed to breathe their own air. The author cannot confine and constrict them to satisfy his own taste or disposition or prejudice.

  

  Harold Pinter
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• Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
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• Panic is a horrible thing.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
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• I've admired historical clothes like Victorian gowns since I was a child, and it's what motivated me to go into fashion.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
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• My own philanthropic efforts have always included an educational element, whether it's expanding opportunities to educate a promising mind or extending the brain's ability to learn.

  

  Naveen Jain
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• When television came along, I'd already done more than 10 years of radio work and I thought everyone would want me. I sat around waiting for the phone to ring - and it didn't.

  

  Orson Welles
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• If there is a good musical reason, I think it might draw more attention and sell, though it is not guaranteed. To make a record without a musical reason, you have to either be a pop star who sells automatically or just be lucky.

  

  Eberhard Weber
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• Dead people don't really die. They live on within you.

  

  Nate Lowman
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• I don't think you ever stop giving. I really don't. I think it's an on-going process. And it's not just about being able to write a check. It's being able to touch somebody's life.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
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• To hear the appreciation, the screams - that's what any of us need. We're at our best when we're wanted.

  

  R. Kelly
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• If we're going to talk about our businesses, we're going to have to talk about them within the constraints of the disclosure rules, without giving guidance, because we're not going to give guidance, because we don't believe that it is a sensible game to play.

  

  Barry Diller
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• I grew up in the projects in Queens, and we were really poor.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
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  • Poor
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• For me, all fiction is about prizing the logic of metaphors - which is the logic of narratives in general - over reality, which is irreducibly random and senseless.

  

  Ken Liu
  • Reality
  • Logic
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• I believe that both people in a marriage should be concentrated on health, and you should be inspiring each other. How to make your mind healthier, how to make your body healthier. Healthy mind, healthy body, healthy soul.

  

  Kendra Wilkinson
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  • Believe
  • Mind

• In New York - not to say New York isn't a competitive place - but there's much more of a sense of, we're all here and some of us are up and some of us are down and some of us are in the middle, but we have a longer view of history and how it works, rather than just this week.

  

  Cynthia Nixon
  • Up
  • History
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• I'm remixing an R.E.M. track called 'I've Been High' from their last album, 'Reveal.' It's a beautiful song, but record execs didn't put it out as a single because it didn't sound like the R.E.M. we're used to. So I asked Michael Stipe if I could have the tapes to do a remix, and he agreed.

  

  Lukas Haas
  • High
  • Beautiful
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• Straight people say, 'You know you're just gay,' and gay people say, 'You know you're just gay.' There is such a thing as bisexual!

  

  Andy Dick
  • People
  • Gay
  • Bisexual

• True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

  

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