Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write music.
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
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The evidence of a Jewish civilization going back more than two millennia is overwhelmingly borne out in the archaeology of the region. The heritage of the Jews in Palestine is documented.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
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After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri and the rest of them, while they signed the terms of surrender that ended the war.
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An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
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I think in general, lines are a bad idea. Especially if they sound like lines. Everyone's immediate reaction is to just kind of cringe a little bit.
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A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to make their street safer; a woman running for office to improve her country - they all have something to offer, and the more our societies empower women, the more we receive in return.
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I had to start being aware of what I ate, what I'm planning to eat and take my twice-daily medication accordingly. That's not so difficult now, but when you're 10 years old, it's tough, let me tell you.
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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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'Twilight's got some avid - and rabid - fans.
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
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We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.
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I read our emails every day and I know there are people out there who think I'm awful.
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For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.
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Being an entrepreneur is my dream job, as it tests ones tenacity.
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Attachment parenting is not a passive parenting style.
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This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern.
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Letter to Hitler, quoted in Winston Churchill's The Gathering Storm:
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Theres my education in computers, right there; this is the whole thing, everything I took out of a book.
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That it should be the questions and shape of a life, its total complexity gathered, arranged, and considered, which matters in the end, not some stamp of salvation or damnation that disperses all the complexity into some unsatisfying little decision - the balancing of scales.
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Humor is a way of holding off how awful life can be.
