Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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We can help a whole lot of people if we could figure out a way to expand Medicaid and get people the care that they need.
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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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I can paint in jail.
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Getting pummelled is better than not playing anything at all.
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You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
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Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what we haven't done in someone else's.
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Latin people love to dance. Nothing is more powerful than a Latin man doing 'Mambo Number 5' by himself.
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Rand Paul does not like being compared to his father Ron any more than sons named Bush like to dance in their father's shadow, but the crucial difference is that while the Bushes all hail from the relative mainstream of the GOP, the Pauls have an ideological tributary virtually to themselves.
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Without a doubt, priority No. 1 is always my family. Whether it's my children or my husband or even my girlfriends who are also my family, I put them first no matter what. And it makes it easy to then juggle everything else because it's never a question.
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I don't get far enough into a boring book to hate it.
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South African literature is a literature in bondage. It is a less-than-fully-human literature. It is exactly the kind of literature you would expect people to write from prison.
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When you live in a condo complex with people next door, I don't know how you can be dead for four months without anybody noticing you not coming and going.
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In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.
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Britain's passion for Christmas and huge white weddings dates from Victorian times - both were low-key celebrations before Victoria and her PR machine.
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Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.
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You do have to learn how to wear a kilt, and it's certainly very liberating and very freeing, but surprisingly very comfortable to wear, to ride a horse in a kilt. I was surprised by that.
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Hemingway's minimalism is based on the psychological mechanics of repression. An echo of his approach can be detected in a favorite trope of 1980s minimalists: a pattern of reference to dire secrets and hidden wounds these authors didn't realize they were supposed to have imagined.
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I've always loved science, but I was never going to make much of a contribution. I'm better off having science as a hobby.
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My wife's French. I mean I speak a bit of French but I've lived amongst French, you know, most of my adult life.
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When I'm not acting, I don't feel like an actor.
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Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.
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You will notice already that Mr. Baggins was not quite so prosy as he liked to believe, also that he was very fond of flowers.
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To bethe eyesand earsand conscienceof the Creator of the Universe,you fool.
