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RICHIE SAMBORA We have this habit of romanticizing the lives of writers. I remember when I was a kid, I was like, &...
JOHN GREEN People don’t keep journals for themselves. They keep them for other people, like a secret they don...
MARILYN MANSON In seventh grade, with some vague sense that I wanted to be a writer, I crouched in the junior high ...
JESS WALTER People don’t want a relationship; they just want someone to yell at on a regular basis.
JUSTIN DEVINE Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but...
KURT VONNEGUT Any writer my age almost can't get away from being influenced by Kurt Vonnegut, partially becaus...
CHRIS CRUTCHER I always tell people I want to live to be 150 and they say why would you want to do that. I say, wel...
MIKE DITKA Don’t give people what they want, give them what they need.
JOSS WHEDON People want to help me. They want the best for me. I always say thank you to people when they try th...
PABLO SANDOVAL I don't want people getting mad at me if they can't get in, but 300 is our limit. I'm amazed at how ...
LOUIE ANDRUS A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want.
MADONNA As much as people want to get mad at us, don't look at us. We just went out there and performed.
JACOB BURTSCHI Scum of the Earth as some may be in their daily lives, they can all be saints in emergencies.
KURT VONNEGUT As Richard Pryor was to Eddie Murphy, that's what Kurt Vonnegut was to me.
CHRISTOPHER MOORE I think we should stop asking people in their twenties what they “want to do” and start asking t...
AMY POEHLER These poor girls are just bad impersonators. They look cheap, really. There’s nothing special abou...
JAMES W. BODDEN Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be. -Kurt Vonnegut.
KURT VONNEGUT What occurs to people when they read Kurt [Vonnegut] is that things are much more up for grabs than ...
MARK VONNEGUT But stories are like people, Atticus. Loving them doesn’t make them perfect. You try to cherish th...
MATT RUFF We talk a lot about Malcom X and Martin Luther King JR, but It's time to be like them, as strong as ...
TUPAC SHAKUR People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances....
KIRK MANGO Women don’t want a relationship; they just want someone to yell at on a regular basis.
JUSTIN DEVINE OK, now let’s have some fun. Let’s talk about sex. Let’s talk about women. Freud said he didn�...
KURT VONNEGUT I really began to love to read while in high school, and my favorite authors were my heroes: J.D. Sa...
LOUIS SACHAR What gets me most about these people, Daddy, isn't how ignorant they are, or how much they drink. It...
KURT VONNEGUT They are motivated, and they are excited and they want to do well. A lot of times the students don't...
ALEX DWORZANSKI When they want you in secret they don’t really want you. They want the adventure. Give them one by...
DONNA LYNN HOPE A walk?" said Catharine.
"One foot in front of the other," said Newt, "through leaves, over bri...
KURT VONNEGUT JR. We know they go home a lot and sit in front of the television and play PlayStation and Nintendo. We ...
KATHY BAILEY We want different things. Men want to have sex with a woman. Then they want to have sex with another...
HUGH LAURIE People don’t want to be millionaires — they want to experience what they believe only millions c...
TIMOTHY FERRISS Society is more concerned with material possessions than it is with the true love and compassion of ...
KURT VONNEGUT JR. The most radical, audacious thing to think is that there might be some point to working hard and thi...
KURT VONNEGUT My theory is that Kurt had a lot of residual pain from his childhood. And when you pile that on top ...
CHARLES J. SHIELDS I have one problem, I don’t hate people. They disgust me and I want to get away from them. I do no...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Men need rule books. Women want men to intuit what they want. And only about 2% of men can do that, ...
DENNIS PRAGER Artemis remembered a few lines from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland: “But I don’t want to go ...
EOIN COLFER Many survivors struggle to believe the abuse happened. They don’t want to believe it. It’s too p...
LAURA DAVIS You can't get mad at the refs. They made the call. Live with it and get better at it. A lot of them ...
AHMAD CARROLL I like to write sad songs. They're much easier to write and you get a lot more emotion into them...
ALAN JACKSON When people get mad, they're more likely to do something. When I go back to Congress ... what's happ...
CECIL ROBERTS People want them to eat, and they want them for pets.
LAREN QUADE Everyone of them is staying, ... They don’t want to go back. They have told me that.
AMY COLLINS We all get lots of people. And maybe we don’t always get to have them the exact way we want them, ...
JOHN COREY WHALEY Kurt Vonnegut said, 'The best of Bob and Ray is virtually indistinguishable from the worst.'...
BOB ELLIOTT I didn't want to get mad. I've been mad all week. Grumpy, nervous.
BRUCE WEBER We see people coming in who want the flexibility. They want to work a couple of days a week. It's ju...
CHERYL MCCANN When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of...
ROBERT FRANK Many people secretly think that gays are a lot happier than they are, and want to punish them.
GEORGE WEINBERG A lot of people get these dogs because they want - pardon my expression - a bad-ass dog.
DENNIS MCCULLOUGH As people get older, they definitely start dropping a lot of the look requirements they have in thei...
JOE TRACY My blog is a collection of answers people don’t want to hear to questions they didn’t ask.
SEBASTYNE YOUNG I think a lot of the guys I know and a lot of people I've talked to, what they want is very ofte...
KEVIN POWERS Far too many people have no idea of what they can do because all they have been told is what they ca...
ZIG ZIGLAR 'But I don’t want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.'Oh, you can’t help that,' said the Ca...
LEWIS CARROLL But I don’t want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.'Oh, you can’t help that,' said the Cat...
LEWIS CARROLL I think you’re confused as to the nature of our relationship. You and I, we don’t get along. You...
ILONA ANDREWS Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be.
CHARLES BROWDER Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be.
CHARLES BROWER Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be
CHARLES BROWER I am baffled by men. When they want me, I don't want them; when I want them, they don't want...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL We got mad at each other, but then we would get glad again. But a lot of people can't get glad.
LEONE KRUTSINGER The Founding Fathers are not just some people that happened to get mad a long time ago and want thei...
RUSH LIMBAUGH A lot of men tend to want "models"
I tell men, unless they look like a model themselves, they c...
TRISHA VENTKER People don’t really want to know anything about you. They just want you to fit into their little p...
LILITH SAINTCROW The trouble with parents is they remember the things you don’t want them to remember. Then the thi...
KATE IFFY CHUKWU These houses feel cozy and safe. A lot of love goes into them. People only work with us because they...
BARBARA MANNING Men don’t take rejection so well. It’s like they’re raised expecting that they can have whatev...
TENDAI HUCHU I hear a lot of people say they want to see me on the punt returns and kick returns, bubble screens ...
JACOBY FORD On Atheism – If people continue to think of atheism as a kind of religion, then I demand all the p...
MARSHA HINDS Tiek uzskatīts, ka pēc apkaušanas jāvalda kapa klusumam, un valda jau arī, tikai putni klaigā.
KURT VONNEGUT Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with ...
FANNY BRICE A lot of people just want them gone. It's pretty bad.
MARIE HUNT A lot of people who want to start their own business never get to it because they don't take the ris...
MARSHA DAVIS There can be a lot of joy derived from seeing (your kids) get what they want and helping them along ...
BARRY VOSLER We just want the kind of house where people can come over, get comfortable, have a glass of wine and...
BRENDA MAGNON But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
"Oh, you can’t help that," said t...
LEWIS CARROLL It was important to get a lead on them at the start of the game because St. Thomas More is a very pa...
DONAVAN DEBOER Many people want them for older dogs who get too tired to go for long walks any more. They miss goin...
BILL WOLFE We want people to experience as much as they can instead of talking at them, lecturing at them, or r...
ANNETTE BROWN People can get exactly what they want, quickly and efficiently and at a price they can live with,
DAVID NORRIS This is a small segment complaining on their own. I spoke with a lot of Hispanic people about what's...
AMILCAR ARROYO Just looking around town in Parsons, people think we don't have a lot of young professional people, ...
WHITNEY YODER The miracle centered gospel gives rise to a generation of people that believes that they don’t nee...
SUNDAY ADELAJA They just hear through the grapevine [from colleagues] ... that if you want a good jury, you've got ...
HENRY WADE Men should stop treating feminists like ladies, and instead treat them like the men they say they wa...
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want men ...
DAVID LIVINGSTONE There's such a stereotype about men and women. Obviously, people think men are faster and strong...
KACY CATANZARO If you want to build a ship
don’t herd people together to collect wood
and don’t assig...
ST. EXUPERY They are trying to use humor to get them into the movie theater. By the end of the movie, they want ...
LAURA GREMELSBACKER I don't want a lot of people nosing round my studio and bothering me. I don't want to see th...
WINSLOW HOMER Lazy people aren’t nice because they don’t want to exert any effort to be nice and lovable.
JOHN B. BEJO I want to support kids that not a lot of people believe in. Give them an opportunity to do good in s...
TIM TEBOW There are people who want to be everywhere at once and they seem to get nowhere
CARL SANDBURG If you don’t know what you want, you end up with a lot you don’t
CHUCK PALAHNIUK A lot of people, they want you to be a one-hit wonder.
SWAE LEE When we get people to log in, they end up using Quora a lot more, and we can provide a lot better ex...
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I find the prospect nauseating....
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human relations now. The...
KURT VONNEGUT JR. Of course it is exhausting, having to reason all the time in a universe which wasn't meant to be rea...
KURT VONNEGUT JR. Being American is to eat a lot of beef steak, and boy, we've got a lot more beef steak than any othe...
KURT VONNEGUT, JR. Everything about life is a joke. Don't you know that?
KURT VONNEGUT JR. Popular as he was as a graduation speaker, Vonnegut never graduated from college.
KURT VONNEGUT JR. One sort of optional thing you might do is to realize there are six seasons instead of four. The poe...
KURT VONNEGUT JR. My cash cows, the slick magazines, were put out of business by TV.
KURT VONNEGUT I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the ki...
KURT VONNEGUT Oh, sure, we have another world war coming, and another great depression, but where are the leaders ...
KURT VONNEGUT Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been...
KURT VONNEGUT If you are an American, you must allow all ideas to circulate freely in your community, not merely y...
KURT VONNEGUT There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.
KURT VONNEGUT I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.
KURT VONNEGUT I let the dog out, or I let him in, and we talk some. I let him know I like him, and he lets me know...
KURT VONNEGUT If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.
KURT VONNEGUT I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.
KURT VONNEGUT Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudic...
KURT VONNEGUT What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thin...
KURT VONNEGUT Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn't always so ...
KURT VONNEGUT People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll h...
KURT VONNEGUT If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can an...
KURT VONNEGUT I get up at 7:30 and work four hours a day. Nine to twelve in the morning, five to six in the evenin...
KURT VONNEGUT Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical ...
KURT VONNEGUT What war has always been is a puberty ceremony. It's a very rough one, but you went away a boy and c...
KURT VONNEGUT The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowled...
KURT VONNEGUT Being American is to eat a lot of beef steak, and boy, we've got a lot more beef steak than any othe...
KURT VONNEGUT ... this is a hard world to be ludicrous in, with so many human beings so reluctant to laugh, so inc...
KURT VONNEGUT The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much wi...
KURT VONNEGUT We are all what we pretend to be, but, we had better be very careful what we pretend.
KURT VONNEGUT I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a ver...
KURT VONNEGUT I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds o...
KURT VONNEGUT We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
KURT VONNEGUT Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than befo...
KURT VONNEGUT People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order, so they'll have...
KURT VONNEGUT There is no order in the world around us, we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos inste...
KURT VONNEGUT There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.
KURT VONNEGUT I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled Science Fiction and I would like out, par...
KURT VONNEGUT Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.
KURT VONNEGUT Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us hu...
KURT VONNEGUT There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, I said, but no good reason ever to have without reser...
KURT VONNEGUT Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but...
KURT VONNEGUT It was a thunderingly beautiful experience -- voluptuous, sexual, dangerous, and expensive as hell.
KURT VONNEGUT We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrol...
KURT VONNEGUT Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
KURT VONNEGUT Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this messag...
KURT VONNEGUT Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to rem...
KURT VONNEGUT I have no degree in biochemistry, neither do I have one in mechanical engineering, as the Army saw f...
KURT VONNEGUT True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the countr...
KURT VONNEGUT What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American f...
KURT VONNEGUT Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since...
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