Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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Loser lit antiheroes aren't well intentioned or earnest; they don't care whether you like them or not. They're self-mocking, ironic and inventive; they narrate their downfalls with manic wordplay, rampant metaphors, wisecracks, and escalating flights of spleen-fueled lyricism.
Kate Christensen -
I used the diabetes as my weapon. Of course, I was only hurting myself and making myself sicker, but I guess it was something I had to go through. I never went overboard so much that I really hurt myself, but my early teenage years were very tough.
Dana Hill -
I don't want to kill windowing; I want to restore choice and options.
Ted Sarandos -
Writing is literally transformative. When we read, we are changed. When we write, we are changed. It's neurological. To me, this is a kind of magic.
Francesca Lia Block -
You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.
Sam Shepard -
When the 'New York Times' revealed the warrantless surveillance of voice calls, in December 2005, the telephone companies got nervous.
Barton Gellman
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The best way to get students involved in science and want to follow either science careers or incorporate it in their lives or to achieve science literacy is to expose them to the various jobs in STEM. It's broad from biologists to electricians to nanotechnologists to building fusion engines. It's a wide range of things.
Mae Jemison -
Everything in nature is not just a straight up. It's an S-curve. It arises for a while until it hits some physical limitation, and then it plateaus again.
Ramez Naam -
I don't get far enough into a boring book to hate it.
Garry Wills -
I wanted to get that Division I scholarship and play ball and go to school for free, and I was always about getting to that next step... I was always ahead of myself in some way, shape or form, and trying to envision how to get further along and closer to fulfilling that dream of being free and having creative agency, so to speak.
Mahershala Ali -
I don't want to be the actor who's followed by paparazzi, you know? I would like to just do good work and have that work be respected and acknowledged.
Randall Park -
Being able to laugh is sexy in a man or woman.
Rachel Stevens
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If you had a really good - battery, it wouldn't matter that the sun goes down at night and the wind stops blowing sometimes. But at the moment, battery technology is nowhere near good enough to use at utility scale.
Nathan Myhrvold -
I have always watched my close friends fall in love, but I never thought it would happen to me.
Uday Kiran -
I would love to have a go at a band or some form of music one day.
Landon Liboiron -
Technical knowledge has now become an integral aspect of the Iranian psyche.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -
My father took one of the toughest jobs in the government because he cared about his nation more than himself. His courage and conviction have always driven me to want to make a difference.
Pardis Sabeti -
Chiranjeevi sir is extremely humble and gracious. He is a superstar, but he is one of the nicest, sweetest, most grounded individuals.
Kajal Aggarwal
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Be brave enough to live creatively.
Alan Alda -
We'll explain the appeal of curling to you if you explain the appeal of the National Rifle Association to us.
Andy Barrie -
I get people today who say, 'I first heard about you through the Stevie Wonder commercial.' The power of advertising in that way is incredible.
Andra Day -
If the average person realized the power he wields over his life and destiny, he would live in a perpetual state of wonder and thanksgiving.
Earl Nightingale -
I believe God did intend, in giving us intelligence, to give us the opportunity to investigate and appreciate the wonders of His creation. He is not threatened by our scientific adventures.
Francis Collins -
I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.
Kurt Vonnegut