Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us.
Kurt Vonnegut
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It's harder, but we're still finding oil in Oklahoma today. The bar has been raised on startup companies, but it can still be done. Every regulation and every rule limits you, but, yes, it can still be done. That's the beauty of living in a free country and having the freedom to have an idea and become an entrepreneur.
Harold Hamm
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I write by stealing time. The hours in the day have never felt as if they belonged to me. The greatest number has belonged to my day job as a physician and professor of medicine - eight to 12 hours, and even more in the early days.
Abraham Verghese
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We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
O. Henry
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Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.
Wallace Stevens
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To fund major cultural efforts, we must not rely alone on government and foundation patronage; if the farmer can spend for beer, he can pay for good entertainment which he can understand, which he can identify with and which will fortify his spirit.
F. Sionil Jose
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He only seems to me to live, and to make proper use of life, who sets himself some serious work to do, and seeks the credit of a task well and skillfully performed.
Sallust
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The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic.
Harold Bloom
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When you move handheld, and the director of photography has the courage to shoot with no lights, the set becomes a space of creativity and freedom where actors can move wherever they want to move.
Jean-Marc Vallee
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When I pick up a book that's, you know, wreathed in laurels, I expect a lot, and that doesn't give the book its best chance to shine.
Jennifer Egan
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It's always been my dream to be an attorney, and I'm that weird breed of human being that loves being in a courtroom.
Kimberly Bryant
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I noticed that almost everyone I went to college with has worked at something other than the subject they majored in. I guess that' s one of the reasons for campus unrest.
Kent McCord
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I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us.
Kurt Vonnegut
