Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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It is more important to know how to mix and match the clothes than to spend money.
Valeria Mazza -
When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not.
Daisaku Ikeda -
Australia lives with a strange contradiction - our national image of ourselves is one of the Outback, and yet nearly all us live in big cities. Move outside the coastal fringe, and Australia can feel like a foreign country.
Kate Grenville -
Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
Abraham Lincoln -
Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.
Jack Kornfield -
Everyone in the United States asks me about being a woman CEO. To be honest, it has had no impact on my career. While I was at BCG, it didn't matter whether you were a man or a woman. The only thing that mattered was that you were good at your job.
Maelle Gavet
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Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.
Jacob Bronowski -
My orange Persian Mews hangs out with me while I write.
Karen Robards -
When you do well at an audition, it is the highest high you can achieve because you just beat yourself. You became whatever it was, for a minute. It's a great feeling when that happens.
Madeline Zima -
It seems to limit you; when you're working in an office, you're a creature in a small cell under somebody's supervision and surveillance.
Jack Vance -
People are obsessed with actresses being hairless, fatless Barbie dolls.
Gaby Hoffmann -
Mom and I…we're both very flaky people.
Frances Bean Cobain
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If you’re going to do something that crazy, save it for when it’ll make a difference. But absent near-omniscience there’s no way to know when that is. You can only make your best approximate calculation. You can only make your throw and try to puzzle out the results afterward.
Ann Leckie -
Barry Manilow has gone from being the love of my life to being a friend for life.
Lorna Luft -
When Steve Jobs toured Xerox PARC and saw computers running the first operating system that used Windows and a mouse, he assumed he was looking at a new way to work a personal computer. He brought the concept back to Cupertino and created the Mac, then Bill Gates followed suit, and the rest is history.
Douglas Rushkoff -
I think you do independent movies because you're looking to cut away from commercial movies.
Bill Pullman -
Well, there's nothing more touching than putting a smile on a kid's face when you can.
Emma Roberts -
People ask me, 'What keeps you up at night?' It's delivering a personal experience to every Neiman Marcus customer. It's the hardest thing we do.
Karen Katz
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I can say without melodrama or malice that Hollywood ruined my life.
Jerome Charyn -
Grace is everywhere as an active orientation of all created reality toward God.
Karl Rahner -
My life motto is basically to lower your standards and expectations so you're never disappointed and never put any trust in anything, and I try to prepare for the day that I wake up, and everyone I know is like, 'LOL JK best long-running practical joke ever', so I've never really let myself freak out or get too excited about anything.
Tavi Gevinson -
It's funny because if you ever ask anyone in England to try and do a Beatles accent, no one knows what they really sound like. If you ask anyone in America, they would try and give it a go. English people just know their songs.
Aaron Johnson -
Relaxing at home in his 55th-floor condominium before a game, Sammy Sosa is the same as at the ball park: focused but funny, exuberant but reserved. He is in a strange country, conversing in two languages, but his every movement displays a combination of confidence and humility.
Bill Dedman -
I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
Kurt Vonnegut