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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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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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 am pretty hard on myself. But I think that's how it has to be if you want to keep growing as an actor.
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After thousands of hours of news coverage, we have learned that Hillary is a liar and Barack is a terrorist or something.
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You pulled out of MacWorld and began hosting your own strictly scripted events. … Despite the gorgeous products and services you've created, we worry that you're headed down a road that may lead to your own demise.
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Religion makes good people better and bad people worse.
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I will interview bigwigs if I get the chance, but you are seldom surprised by people in power - you've got to get awfully damn close to get anything new.
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People aren't supposed to look back. I'm certainly not going to do it anymore.
