Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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When you play good, everything is good, but when you don't play so good, everything is bad. Even when you think there are good things, they still say bad things.
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How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!
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When I produce a movie - and I've produced a number of movies, unlike Arnold - yes, I'm frustrated when the union says you can't do this, you can't work past that hour, you've got to break for lunch. But ultimately, they're right. What they do is for everyone's benefit.
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I still have a fear of theater. I don't know if I will manage that. I used to do it. I developed a bit of a phobia. It's not a real phobia. I can go in and watch.
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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I like to discover new things.
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You've got to take the bitter with the sour.
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I have to think of the positive; that's how I cope.
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There are many cultural prejudices. For instance, even though fresh fish is a regional staple, Catalans don't like sashimi.
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I need my fill of Indian home cooking.
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When Elvis was performing, you just tried to figure out a way to get there. I think he set all the records and anyone that has ever had the good fortune to see him, you know what it's like to try to get in to see Elvis. It was impossible, practically.
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New York felt to me like what America should be - a representation of the world in this small pocket.
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I didn't work hard to make Ruby perfect for everyone, because you feel differently from me. No language can be perfect for everyone. I tried to make Ruby perfect for me, but maybe it's not perfect for you. The perfect language for Guido van Rossum is probably Python.
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When I was young I used to listen to other people and to try and understand what they thought and where they were coming from. I listened and didn't speak.
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My entertainment was going to the local dollar movie theatre on the weekend, where I watched old black and white movies. If you wanted current movies, you had to drive to the big city.
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Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.
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To be alive at all involves some risk.
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When you have an emotion you are recruiting a variety of mechanisms that came in the long history of evolution, long before emotions arose, and those mechanisms all had to do with how an organism manages its life.
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Over the last half century the television interview has given us some of TV's most heart-stopping and memorable moments. On the surface it is a simple format - two people sitting across from one another having a conversation. But underneath it is often a power struggle - a battle for the psychological advantage.
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My M.O. over the years is that I make things better, where people give me that freedom.
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I am a lesbian trapped in a man's body.
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My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what we think we know, we ignore or avoid evidence of anything that might change our mind.
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The day that man allows true love to appear, those things which are well made will fall into cofusion and will overturn everything we believe to be right and true.
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Napalm came from Harvard. Veritas!
