Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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I am very happy my Olympic dream has come true.
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I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself.
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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Allowing homosexuality means allowing satanic rights.
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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
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I start the day with the intention of doing 4,000 sit-ups but then have to work.
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I like people that are not frightened to say what they think.
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For a spinner growing up in England, it is challenging to become an off-spinner. The line and length needs to be altered on each of the four days of county cricket or five days of Test matches. The pitches in England don't have a set pattern. It changes with each day, and accordingly, the length varies.
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There is no right or wrong way of giving. People in Los Angeles have made major contributions in different ways to the city: Eli Broad to art. David Geffen to hospitals. I'm not judgmental.
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I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think.
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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
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It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.
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Truth be told, there are lots of companies that provide exemplary phone support. DirecTV, Virgin America and Apple are a few that regularly exceed my expectations.
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If you break up with a girlfriend or a boyfriend, you're in this vulnerable state where you're still kind of half in the relationship with them, but you're single, and it takes a while to feel solid in yourself again.
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Good planning is important. I've also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on a big expedition. When you're in a difficult or dangerous situation, or when you're depressed about the chances of success, someone who can make you laugh eases the tension.
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I don't always want my opinion known. What little privacy I have left I'd like to maintain.
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When you're on set, the crew are like your family because you see them every day, six days a week.
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Rankings are not so important. I am only focused on winning tournaments.
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In my state, the Republican Party was the most progressive party.
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I don't run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this extremely tender environmentalist conscience, but the fact is I hate driving.
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The history of our times calls to mind those Walt Disney characters who rush madly over the edge of a cliff without seeing it, so that the power of their imagination keeps them suspended in mid-air; but as soon as they look down and see where they are, they fall.
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For 24 hours a day, for 10 years, all I thought about was being in a band. That's all I did. I had no other social life. I don't want my life to be like that now. I've spent the past 10 years having a real life as well. But Spandau Ballet is such a difficult shadow to outrun.
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The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin.
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Evolution is so creative. That's how we got giraffes.
