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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As long as government is allowed to collect all Internet data, the perceived exigency will drive honest civil servants to reach more broadly and deeply into our networked lives.
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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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For when God forbids us to kill, he not only prohibits us from open violence, which is not even allowed by the public laws, but he warns us against the commission of those beings which are esteemed lawful among men....Therefore, with regard to this precept of God, there ought to be no exception at all, but that it is always unlawful to put to death a man, whom God willed to be a sacred animal.
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People who know the truth have no business to allow the powers of darkness to silence them on any point that matters.
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A great director or leader knows his people, creates a great team, and then makes a great movie that can influence millions more than the readers of his column.
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That's why I've always loved country music. Whether it's sad, pumps you up, or it's breakup songs, it's all real-life things.
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When I was very small, maybe 8 years old, we had a big radio that stood on four legs, and it had a cross piece underneath it, and I used to take a pillow and crawl under the radio.
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Doesn't anything socialistic make you want to throw up? Like great public schools, or health insurance for all?
