Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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We must do our part to end poverty in Korea so that the next generation doesn't experience what we are going through now.
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'The Waltons' was profoundly important after years of wandering around. I was 44 and cut off from family and friends. It nurtured me back to a sense of family and who I am. It was a transforming experience.
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I am someone who tweets about what I have for breakfast, what I have for lunch, what I have for dinner, and for 99.99999 percent of the world, it's useless. It's meaningless. But for my mother, she loves it.
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One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
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Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?
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The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
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We who were born were not witnesses to our birth: like death, it is something we are forever after trying to catch sight of.
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I actually wanted to first direct and produce, but then I got this very cool opportunity to be in front of the camera once.
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Most men say they can cook pasta, but I think you should find a little bit of an unusual angle on your pasta and make that your signature dish.
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The biggest competition is myself. I am not looking to follow others or pull them down. I'm planning to test my own boundaries.
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Energy legislation in Congress and the focus on energy legislation is first and foremost about creating good jobs. In Florida, where solar and biofuel and wind and so many other areas are important and so many in the private sector continues to pursue these, we need policies that will encourage that.
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I know that my tendency is to be linear, and I'm trying to find ways to subvert that. And so in 'Bellocq's Ophelia' my device for subverting it was to tell the story and then to tell it again; it always circles back to this one moment, and it's not linear, but it's round in that way, and much of 'Native Guard' is like that.
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Hopefully, at some point, people will at least credit the Republicans with carrying out their oversight responsibilities and with pursuing a principled course of action even in the face of everyone's short-attention spans.
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The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.
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If you are going to do something truly innovative, you have to be someone who does not value social approval. You can't need social approval to go forward. Otherwise, how would you ever do the thing that you are doing?
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In a finite world this means that the per capita share of the world's goods must steadily decrease.
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By dedicating so much concentration to the issue of security, bilateral matters pass to a secondary level.
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The number one priority in life is to take care of yourself and make sure you're happy.
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Whenever we feel shame, it's a mark of some deep investment or deep internal struggle.
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It's great for my confidence getting a letter saying 'All I want from life, Katie, is you and health.'
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It's craziness to see yourself as damaged goods, so I was the goofy kid who'd stop a strange adult and say, 'Do you know how to get to Palm Avenue?' They'd say no, and I'd say, 'You go two blocks and turn right. You can't miss it.'
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Those who yearn for the end of capitalism should pray for government by men who believe that all positive action is inimical to what they call thoughtfully the fundamental principles of free enterprise.
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In the past we couldn't talk to non-union workers. Now we can at least talk to non-union workers so we'll be mobilizing them and educating them not for just six or eight months before an election, but we'll be doing it year-round.
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Well, I just want to say that George W. Bush is the syphilis president.
