Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
Damien Hirst -
Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
Fareed Zakaria -
I can paint in jail.
Jack Kevorkian -
Getting pummelled is better than not playing anything at all.
Laura Robson -
You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
Larry Gagosian -
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.
Ian Thorpe
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Latin people love to dance. Nothing is more powerful than a Latin man doing 'Mambo Number 5' by himself.
Taylor Negron -
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.
Vanessa Lachey -
I don't get far enough into a boring book to hate it.
Garry Wills -
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.
J. M. Coetzee -
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.
Laura Schlessinger -
In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair
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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.
Kate Williams -
Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.
Ted Shackelford -
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.
Sam Heughan -
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.
Madison Smartt Bell -
Our job as writers is to listen, to come home to the four corners of the earth.
Natalie Goldberg -
We remained in Texas leading a quiet home life until 1889.
Calamity Jane
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What is not seen is as if it was not. Even the Right does not receive proper consideration if it does not seem right.
Baltasar Gracian -
Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy.
William Hazlitt -
Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by action. If this be true, not only do the doctrines of wisdom help us but the precepts also, which check and banish our emotions by a sort of official decree.
Seneca the Younger -
The city does not read the fine print. It’s hard – NP-hard, to be precise – when verifying the contract structure is computationally intractable within the lifetime of the Universe.
Hannu Rajaniemi -
To bethe eyesand earsand conscienceof the Creator of the Universe,you fool.
Kurt Vonnegut