Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
I had no talent for science. What was infinitely worse: all my fraternity brothers were engineers.
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If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.
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I'd work with soccer coordinators at Game Changing Films and have one or two combat training sessions with my stunt double, who's a wushu master.
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The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
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Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.
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I really appreciate people like Rosie coming out and saying I've inspired them.
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I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.
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I read in the paper that I'd slashed my wrists. But I didn't.
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I had an ethnic preference, if you will, for the warm weather, coming from Chennai. So I finally said, 'Look, can I move to California?' because every time I come here, it would be in the 70s or 80s, and there would be beautiful blue sky and warm.
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The production value of YouTube videos is not there.
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For me, one of the privileges of being a writer is to poke your nose around and learn about worlds you don't know.
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My biggest fear has always been being 40 and hating my job. I love challenges. I'm not afraid to try anything.
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I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.
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The big difference between the radio show and the TV work is that I don't have to work by committee on the radio show. I'm the DJ; I can play what I want and suffer or get praised by that. With a TV show, it's much more of a collaboration, and the song that I might think is perfect may get shot down and vice versa.
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The day I became a hero, my dream was realised. Everything else is a bonus.
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We didn't gel with Poison and the Bon Jovi. Bon Jovi was the best of the pop metal bands, but we never fit in with the hair metal stuff. We were never as hip as the Chili Peppers. We were in the middle.
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I am sure it does not hurt that Mitt Romney is my dad. I'm sure it's opened a lot of doors for me. But I think I've been pretty effective once I've gotten through the door at doing a pretty good job.
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I will never do 'Pulp Fiction 2,' but having said that, I could very well do other movies with these characters.
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I don't ever want to feel complacent.
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The world is shrinking together; it is finding itself neighbor to itself in strange, almost magic degree.
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...NAFTA, signed by her husband, is perhaps the greatest disaster trade deal in the history of the world.
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The ability to take another perspective has become one of the keys to both sales and non-sales selling. And the social science research on perspective-taking yields some important lessons for all of us.
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This is actually a very important principle that science is learning about large systems like evolution and that futurists are learning about anticipating human society: just because a future scenario is plausible doesn't mean we can get there from here.
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Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity.
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I had no talent for science. What was infinitely worse: all my fraternity brothers were engineers.
