Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia.Kurt Vonnegut
Quotes to Explore
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I'd love to be 'People Magazine''s Sexiest Man Alive, but I think that that's a ways off. I have to stop wearing sweat pants, and then we'll work on that.
Zach Anner -
It's better to do a film that works.
Mahesh Babu -
I never want to hold myself up as the poster child of the successful mother-businesswoman. It's a total 'Gong Show.' I won't pretend. When you do so many things, something always suffers. You just can't be great at everything.
Candice Olson -
Throughout history, self-styled arbiters have taken it upon themselves to decide the question of what can or cannot be the legitimate purview of art.
Barbara Goldsmith -
One of the great upsides to a national book tour is the chance to break out of television's cocoon and interact directly with the American people.
Oliver North -
I was excited when King's College announced a scholarship for students who are in developing countries.
Malala Yousafzai
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People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.
Abdolkarim Soroush -
But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.
Abraham Maslow -
'Extraordinary' is an original fairy tale, a contemporary story. But like a traditional fairy tale, it heads quickly into frightening, bloody territory. I am afraid for my book, as it goes out alone into the world, just as I was frightened for Phoebe as I wrote and rewrote her story.
Nancy Werlin -
One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
E. L. Doctorow -
I've always wanted to be someone with credibility, and I want my food to speak for myself.
Aarti Sequeira -
When I read, I take notes and underline things. So reading is a vigorous process for me, but I read in bed. My poor husband is trying to go to sleep, and I'm reaching over him to get the Post-it notes.
Sally Mann
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I don't weigh into politics.
Gary Bettman -
Playing and listening to music gives you a sense of fulfilment because you have to put everything in you at its disposal.
Daniel Barenboim -
I've not sat with my agent going: 'Where is the next hopeless girl I can play?' They just come along.
Laura Carmichael -
It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.
Jack Nicklaus -
I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there.
Damon Albarn Gorillaz -
All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.
Eddie Bernice Johnson
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I was a member of the Politburo for seven years, a foreign minister.
Eduard Shevardnadze -
You know who we hear about all the rappers from? The bus drivers.
Dan Auerbach The Black Keys -
The civil rights movement was about access to public space. We had to fight for public space.
Jacqueline Woodson -
'Harlem: The Unmaking of a Ghetto' is a surprise and a fresh way of looking at Harlem, connecting the black district with the architecture of its historical past.
Darryl Pinckney -
Evil is movement towards void.
Don DeLillo -
Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia.
Kurt Vonnegut