Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
'All people are insane,' he said. 'They will do anything at any time, and God help anybody who looks for reasons.'
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I'm afraid one thing - I don't like heights. Heights bug me out. I'm not cool with heights. I refuse to do a comedy show 12 stories up. I'm fearless about everything else.
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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Everyone can do a character the way they want to do it, unless the director tells them not to, which isn't very common. I like to do my characters, if it's not specific in the script, as myself.
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I try and find fun activities like mountain biking, hiking, or water sports for a workout rather than pushing weight in the gym.
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We live in an inter-dependent world. An isolated India is not in our interest.
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I don't spend a lot on holidays, but have been very fortunate to travel extensively through doing various challenges around the world. The best place I've ever been is Argentina.
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After 'Heart Skips A Beat' hit No.1, I barely had a chance to celebrate 'cos it was straight over to the judges' houses for the 'Xtra Factor,' filming in Greece, L.A. and Spain.
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Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
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A lot of people think that to make it as a model you just need to be pretty and slim, but they're wrong. There's a lot of hard work involved. You have to be very focused, know what kind of work you're aiming for.
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Even the worst Bond movies, there's something to love about them.
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My life has taken me down several different paths I never expected it to take me down. Not in a million years.
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My career is playing the guys who go, 'Boo.' That's what I do.
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To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after.
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My motivation and aspiration is the same, being number one or being number five. So that's the truth. And my goal is the same - it's to always be happy playing, it's to enjoy the game and improve always.
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Entrepreneurship requires flexibility and an open society, and there will always be people who succeed and people who follow. For those who lead, they have an obligation to create a better life for the people around them.
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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
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All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
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I'm so glad that I didn't give up on myself and there were people who didn't give up on me.
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To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.
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But I don't think that sculpture belongs in everyday life like a table does, or like a chair.
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What is wine? It is the grape present in another form; its essence is there, though the fruit which produced it grew thousands of miles away, and perished years ago. So the object of many a tender thought may be spiritually present, in defiance of space - and fond recollections cherished in defiance of time.
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As fears about the energy and environmental crises reach a fever pitch, we're all searching for solutions. And one possibility is that we could fix everything if we'd just shrink our population back down to about 2 billion people - which would put us roughly where we were at 80 years ago.
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'All people are insane,' he said. 'They will do anything at any time, and God help anybody who looks for reasons.'
