Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.
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I like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.
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I saw 'The Devil Wears Prada.' I don't think it's a reality.
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If someone has failed, that is not a deficiency for me. I think that he has more motivation. I've seen many examples where someone was successful first and failed later and failed first and then succeeded. If they failed in an honest way, I don't see it as a deficiency.
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It has seemed, at times, like American carmakers think car buyers are so blindly loyal that they will keep coming back - despite the sticker shock - for crummy cars that guzzle gas, fall apart too soon, and cost too much to repair.
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It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.
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When I recorded my solo album, 'Keep It Hid,' in 2008, I'd gotten more interested in songwriting, inspired by reading Charles Bukowski and connecting with unfancy, interesting language.
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There is not one New York but thousands - mixed-up conurbations and microclimates with their own internal logics and charms, dreams and juxtapositions, faces and tongues.
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The game has given me so much, and I tried to give so much back to the people who have showed me so much love day after day.
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I did a B.A. with a major in fine arts and a minor in psychology. I wanted to become a teacher or do art therapy for the elderly. But then I realised I wanted to travel instead.
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There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.
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Money is a kind of poetry.
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Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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You can do the best research and be making the strongest intellectual argument, but if readers don't get past the third paragraph you've wasted your energy and valuable ink.
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I guess some kids around me had to grow up quickly, had all those problems. But I wasn't one of those kids, or around those kids, not at all.
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You can build a statistical model and that's all well and good, but if you're dealing with a new type of financial instrument, for example, or a new type of situation - then the choices you're making are pretty arbitrary in a lot of respects.
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I have never read 'To Kill A Mockingbird.'
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I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.
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To be fair, the collection business does have a few good people in it. But it also has those who will lie and make threats.
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Pretend to be good always, and even God will be fooled.
