"Freud said he didn't know what women wanted. I know what women want. They want a whole lot of people to talk to."

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Source : "Valentino: A Stylish Career Laid Bare". "All Things Considered" with Jacki Lyden, www.npr.org. April 19, 2009.

Kurt Vonnegut

#People Quotes #Want Quotes #Said Quotes

“A man is simple when his chief care is the wish to be what he ought to be, that is honestly and naturally human.”

Source : Charles Wagner (2009). “The Simple Life”, p.18, The Floating Press
“The power paradox is that we gain power by advancing the welfare of other people and yet when we feel powerful, it turns us into impulsive sociopaths and we lose those very skills. If you're in the military, you gain power by forging strong ties in your comrades. And then the irony is that once we feel powerful and we are taken with our own success, we ignore the skills that got us power in the first place.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“God's message extends beyond borders. Anyone in the world can learn to forgive those who have injured them, however great or small that injury may be.”
“We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.”
“We all want to know what taxes we would pay under [Donald Trump] tax plan. That's a question.”
“In a world where survival is always seen as a struggle, and in which some pitfalls always exist, if something brings into question our confidence in our own coping ability, it will threaten our safety.”
“We want to be masters of our own destiny. We need no gods or emperors. We do not believe in the existence of any saviour. We want to be masters of the world and not instruments used by autocrats to carry out their wild ambitions. We want a modern lifestyle and democracy for the people. Freedom and happiness are our sole objectives in accomplishing modernisation.”

Source : "Ai Weiwei: the dissident artist" by Hari Kunzru, www.theguardian.com. May 27, 2011.
“The entrÃ©e wasn't tender enough to be a paving stone and the gravy couldn't have been primordial soup because morphogenesis was already taking place.”

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