Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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EVOO is extra-virgin olive oil. I first coined 'EVOO' on my cooking show because saying 'extra virgin olive oil' over and over was wordy, and I'm an impatient girl - that's why I make 30-minute meals!
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Both World War II and the subsequent Cold War gave America's involvement in world affairs a clear focus. The objectives of foreign policy were relatively easy to define, and they could be imbued with high moral content.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration.
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Great amount of scientific research is there to show that health is better because transcendental meditation deals with consciousness, and consciousness is the basic value of all the physical expressions. The entire creation is the expression of consciousness.
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You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.
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You are God's own masterpiece! That means you are not ordinary or average; you are a one-of-a-kind original.
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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.
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When men I have dated over the years whined about, 'Oh, you make no time for me' - see ya! I just dumped them. I don't need that pressure in my life.
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The most irresistible charm of youth is its bubbling enthusiasm. Youth sees no darkness ahead - no defile that has no outlet - it forgets that there is such a thing as failure in the world and believes that mankind has been waiting all these centuries for him to come and be the liberator of truth and energy and beauty.
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I have always been a coward as a child. I am not very brave. I am very aware of the fact that I am not very gutsy.
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I always hope to be a better person tomorrow than today.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
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The media is an ally when it comes to showing the truth about terrorist groups. Attacking the media will not produce a more compliant citizenry. It will produce a more alienated, suspicious and disenfranchised public, one more likely to chafe under a government's attempts at control, all to the benefit of terrorist groups.
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My favorite novels allow me to imagine the characters afterward and what happened, and that I've witnessed a really great story, where the world goes on.
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In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.
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As a kid I loved John McEnroe. They called me Mac because, while everyone else liked Borg, I was crazy about McEnroe. I tried wearing headbands and sweatbands, and whooping at people. It didn't quite work.
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I like being like a chameleon who transforms himself with each role.
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There's no way that that our military power will not erode if a robust American economic revival is not part of the cards.
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As long as I can make a phone call and do a WhatsApp, I'm fine.
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I wasn't aware of my dad being an actor when I was young. I remember there was an Australian children's entertainer on television called Ralph Harris and when I'd say my father was an actor, kids would say, you know, 'oh, is he Ralph Harris?' And I had to say no and then they would lose interest.
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The basic idea of governance, as I see it, is to hold the society together so that it can develop and march towards certain goals.
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People aren't supposed to look back. I'm certainly not going to do it anymore.
