Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
Doesn't anything socialistic make you want to throw up? Like great public schools, or health insurance for all?
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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I'm happy to fight anybody.
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I don't get irrational about it, but I do have a deeply-rooted competitive spirit. Not necessarily towards other people, but towards any obstacle that I set for myself.
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I have dedicated many years to economic study, up to the Ph.D. level, to analyze and understand the inherent weaknesses of aid and why aid policies have consistently failed to deliver on economic growth and poverty alleviation.
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I'm content with the fact that I made a decent effort. That's what I've always worried about: that I wouldn't try hard enough.
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Working with people from all walks of life, from full-time moms to CEOs at large companies, I've distilled many universal truths about success. There's a secret I've learned that works quite well at helping you to achieve what you want: Decide what you want.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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I am an unrepentant tweetaholic. I use the communications service all day long to discover news, interesting tidbits and, of course, to flack the work of our tech and media news site, Re/code.
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I almost took a job in Italy. It was really a great opportunity, but they didn't think I had enough international experience.
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I live with my mum and my nan. I think I will leave eventually, but not at the moment when they look after me so well. If you came to my house, they'd make you eat something.
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My opinion can be completely different after a show.
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Do not share your inventions with many; share them only with the few who understand and love the sciences.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
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If you are a great news organization, you can't have the best obtainable version of the truth if your vision and your scale is reduced to a fraction of its former self.
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I have a background in erotic dancing, but that's mostly just - it's not professional, it's just amateur.
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Gospel music played a huge part of my life. I was too scared to audition for the choir, but through my own music, I was also able to find spirituality for myself.
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Lyndon Johnson, his 44-state landslide in 1964 and Great Society notwithstanding, was by 1968 a failed president being repudiated in the primaries of his own party.
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It is the stupidest children who are most childish and the stupidest grown-ups who are most grown-up.
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While money doesn't buy love, it puts you in a great bargaining position.
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Doesn't anything socialistic make you want to throw up? Like great public schools, or health insurance for all?
