Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
There is never a shortage anywhere of lawyers eager to attack the First Amendment, as though it were nothing more than a clause in a lease from a crooked slumlord.
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Where most of the country is, well, hot - from the bone-baking dry heat of the desert to the flesh-melting humidity of Kerala in the south - Kashmir is cool: so cool, in fact, that in the winter, the temperatures can sink to sub-zero.
Hanya Yanagihara
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For me it's also - the music is equally as important. I mean I think as somebody who writes music, there just has to sort of be the marriage between both.
Katey Sagal
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Vulnerable young women are being brainwashed by the radical lies of ISIS militants in the Middle East.
Dana Perino
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Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
Irvin S. Cobb
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If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
E. Joseph Cossman
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If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to The D.
Jack Black
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God never answers prayers. It is people who answer their own prayers by knowing how to connect and utilize the divine energy of the Creator and the God-like force in their own souls.
Yehuda Berg
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The most important thing about skating is that it teaches you to do the things you should do before you do the things you want to do.
Barbara Ann Scott
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Everything is a piece of me, a moment of my life.
Ursula Andress
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Every once in a while, you let a word or phrase out and you want to catch it and bring it back. You can't do that. It's gone, gone forever.
Dan Quayle
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Destroyers did not have chaplains because they were too small.
Barney Ross
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My race and sex had a great deal more to do with what people believed I could do than with what I actually could do.
Octavia E. Butler
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Lack of knowledge... that is the problem.
W. Edwards Deming
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The best way to teach somebody something is to have them think they're learning something else. I’ve done it my whole career. And the head fake here is that they’re learning to program but they just think they’re making movies and video games.
Randy Pausch
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My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil. 1957, reacting on a remark of Picasso
Ad Reinhardt
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But in order for anyone to become successful, sometimes you have to be that driven and focused, and maybe there isn't a lot left over for personal relationships - although I certainly have had them. It's not as if I cut myself off, but it makes them very difficult. This profession is very hard on relationships.
Nathan Lane
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Music has the capacity to create a greater reality.
Daniel Barenboim
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I must abjure the Balm of Life, I must, Scared by some After-reckoning ta'en on trust, Or lured with Hope of some Diviner Drink, To fill the Cup - when crumbled into Dust!
Omar Khayyam
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Guys don't really don't wanna hear if it's really smart, and women feel uncomfortable if you reveal stuff they're going to have to remember they did themselves.
Liz Phair
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The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself.
Pat Conroy
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Well, I make a practice of not commenting on the role of the relative exchange value of our currency.
John W. Snow
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The force of the guinea you have in your pocket depends wholly on the default of a guinea in your neighbour's pocket. If he did not want it, it would be of no use to you.
John Ruskin
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What the good Lord lets happen, I am not ashamed to print in my paper.
Charles A. Dana
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There is never a shortage anywhere of lawyers eager to attack the First Amendment, as though it were nothing more than a clause in a lease from a crooked slumlord.
Kurt Vonnegut