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Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

I left the Middle West for Schenectady because the General Electric Company offered me a more congenial, better paying job than did anyone else.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: November 11, 1922 - April 11, 2007

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Job Me Better More Company Middle

I reached the point where I actually enjoyed the umpiring more than playing.

More Point Playing Where Than

We have these words 'space' and 'time,' but you can't touch them. They're not objects, they're not things, they go forever. Space and time are really tools of animal sense perception, the way we organize and construct information.

Time Words Animal Space Perception

The worst thing that you can do in terms of bringing a product up to the market is to be two days after someone else has brought a similar product to the international market-It's dead.

Someone You Product Worst Dead Days

In nature, disease-causing strains of avian influenza rarely spread far because the birds sicken and die before they can fly to spread it to others.

Nature Birds Fly Die Others Spread

Irish music in the local pubs was my first exposure to musical expression, and I feel like Irish music is very close to musical theater because it is always telling a story.

Music Story Feel Irish First Always

I have been fighting writing songs for a long time. People keep telling me I should write, and other writers have offered to write with me, and to be honest, it's not something I've ever really had a passion for - plus I wasn't sure I had the talent to do it!

Martina McBride

Passion Time Talent People Me Long

Before I became a suspense novelist, I wrote romantic suspense as Alicia Scott.

Romantic Suspense Before Wrote Scott

If City Hall started projecting swastikas, no one would say 'You know what? Free speech.' People would say that is wrong.

People City Free Speech You Wrong

Maybe some day they'll find me behind the computer, just bones and cobwebs.

Day Me Find Bones Behind Just

I have a deadly disease called Sickle Cell Anemia that I was born with that affects millions of others - primarily in the Black and Latino cultures. I feel I can inspire others with this Sickle Cell disease to be strong and believe in themselves.

Be Strong Believe Strong Inspire

My mother was a member of the Cape Coloured community. 'Coloured' is the South African word for the half-caste community that was a by-product of the early contact between black and white.

Mother Black And White Community Word

Nobody will ever agree with everything everyone says, especially once an issue or speaker becomes politically charged. But as tolerant and civilized Americans, we should at least have the decency to hear them out.

Nobody Will Everyone Everything Out

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