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.
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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.
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Vulnerable young women are being brainwashed by the radical lies of ISIS militants in the Middle East.
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Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
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If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Everything is a piece of me, a moment of my life.
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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.
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Destroyers did not have chaplains because they were too small.
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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.
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Lack of knowledge... that is the problem.
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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.
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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
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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.
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Music has the capacity to create a greater reality.
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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!
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I thrive on structure. I find my freedom in structure.
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The RNA World referred to an hypothetical stage in the origin of life on Earth.
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My experience bears out an adage about airlines: People almost always opt for convenience and price, even while complaining loudly about crowded planes and a dearth of amenities.
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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.
