Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
One of the things that I tell beginning writers is this: If you describe a landscape, or a cityscape, or a seascape, always be sure to put a human figure somewhere in the scene. Why? Because readers are human beings, mostly interested in human beings. People are humanists. Most of them are humanists, that is.
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I live in Derry, a little town in Ireland, and I don't have the background of Hollywood or Broadway.
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Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child will resist temptation or seduction, another will easily yield to it. There are children who will hardly oppose any resistance to the invitation of an unknown person to follow him; others who react in an opposite way in the same circumstances.
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A lot of people tell me I have to trash-talk more, but I got here with my fists, fighting, not with my mouth.
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I just respect Kanye as an artist.
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I get cast as a lot of sympathetic characters. I'd like to play someone really unpleasant.
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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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We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
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For some reason, I just lack that ability to be embarrassed about going up to people. I even do it for friends if they want to ask someone out.
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We need to build systems that can automatically figure out what's high quality and what's not, and encourage users to contribute high-quality content. There's a lot of technical challenges in that.
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I didn't and don't go to Internet for any business purposes. The book sales for me by this point are way beyond any influence I might have, positively, or others might have, negatively.
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I worked in SRK and Salman Khan's films as a child artiste, so Bollywood has always been on my radar.
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What had disappointed me at the time of the last tour, was to go on a worldwide tour, we were at some incredible places and we couldn't enjoy it, hadn't the time.
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The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler.
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I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.
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When you forgive somebody, it doesn't necessarily mean you want to invite them to your table.
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I don't want to be known for someone that's good-looking. I want to be known as someone who is one of the best midfielders. That's my thing.
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I had novels to write, so I wrote them.
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If I go to a baseball game, I hear 'Shoeless Joe,' but otherwise, I hear 'toe pick' five times a day. No matter how many more movies I make, that'll be on my gravestone.
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So I was always around music and my dad was in his own way a progressive jazzer, a big band jazzer guy.
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My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.
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I've never worked for the sake of working. There's probably enough crap out there for me not to add to it.
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If budget planning requires gathering information from people who may not always have the incentive to disclose that information, then the principles of mechanism design can definitely be of use in such planning.
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Myth-making is absolutely necessary to create the simplified images that people live off.
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One of the things that I tell beginning writers is this: If you describe a landscape, or a cityscape, or a seascape, always be sure to put a human figure somewhere in the scene. Why? Because readers are human beings, mostly interested in human beings. People are humanists. Most of them are humanists, that is.
