Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you've got about a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies - 'God damn it, you've got to be kind.'
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But we had a fantastic coach, Simon Clifford, who runs a British football youth game which teaches Brazilian techniques - which is what we wanted to incorporate into the film. And some of those things we eventually got in.
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Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
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I created 'The Guild' because nobody was offering me the roles I thought I could do best at in Hollywood.
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On my best days, such as when I was a junior in high school coming off a 42-point performance and near triple-double, my dad was there to tell me I haven't arrived yet and bring me back to reality.
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As I grow older I spend more time with my wife, and gradually my interest in the woman's world is growing.
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I loved theatre and film when I was growing up in Harpenden, Hertfordshire. My mum's a reflexologist and my dad's a corporate financier.
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I want to be able to make people laugh and cry and feel happy or sad and feel all these different emotions through singing and acting. Hopefully throughout my career, I'll get to pursue them.
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I wouldn't mind having my heart broken because it would mean that I had that much feeling connected to somebody. And that would be really great.
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All business leaders need to be technologists, as every industry now has a Netflix or an Uber on the horizon, threatening to upend business as usual. Apps are driving this disruption, and every enterprise needs to become an app company.
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Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far.
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I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.
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Spanglish is a creative way also of saying, 'I am an American, and I have my own style, my own taste, my own tongue.'
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Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.
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Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
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There's something very Nixonian about the idea of keeping an enemy's list.
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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
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A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.
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I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera.
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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
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I listen to the far left which informs the far right. Somewhere in the middle is where we end up.
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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence and deem them like the Ark of the Covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.
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God gave me a very good hand to play over my 88 years. I have no regrets.
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Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you've got about a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies - 'God damn it, you've got to be kind.'
