Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.
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A feeling of alienation existed in India about life in Pakistan because most of what was known was negative. So, everyone used to believe things in our country are always bad, and we don't lead a happy life. But this has changed to some extent. After watching our dramas, people now know that we lead our lives similar to the way they live.
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
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I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.
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The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
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Good material is good material.
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I think the hardest thing I went through in the UFC was my first loss. It was terrible. It was traumatizing. But it's just going back and rebuilding and getting better.
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You need to learn. You need to grow up. You need to step up and know the difference between what you can do and what you can't.
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A woman - even if she is the primary breadwinner - really needs to keep in mind that at some point, she may have a diminished earning capacity because of the fact that she will bear children. Of course, this is case by case. I had two kids, and it didn't really slow me down at all.
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For most of my life, I have eaten to deal with stress.
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The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.
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'Vogue' is a very specific world. You are 'Vogue,' or not 'Vogue.'
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Demolishing pretensions, especially worthy ones, is a hallmark of the baby boom.
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Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.
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As far as guys who perform onstage, I love Chris Rock. I'm kind of jaded on everyone else.
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India should walk on her own shadow - we must have our own development model.
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I feel quite fearless protecting the people I love.
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Embarrassed journalists ask me embarrassing questions, and they get embarrassing answers, and then hand out embarrassing stories to the embarrassing editors, who put them to the front pages of newspapers. When is this going to end?
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I've been obsessed with the Kennedys since I was a child, and Bobby Kennedy is, hands down, my favorite among them.
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Conflict, of course, comes about because of the misuse of power and the clash of ideals, not to mention the inflammatory activities of unscrupulous and bigoted leaders. But it also arises, tragically, from an inability to understand and from the powerful emotions which, out of misunderstanding, lead to distrust and fear.
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Leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear. I rise Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise.
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Ignorance leads to fear, fear leads to hate, and hate leads to violence. This is the equation.
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Humor is an almost physiological response to fear.
