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Kurt Cobain Musician, Singer-Songwriter
Love

“I respect people who promote the way they feel sexually”

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Kurt Fuller Actor
Wise

“I am not a member of the chamber of commerce for show business, believe me, but there are some really good people in the business, and [Tom] Hanks has this everyman decency onscreen, but he actually is that guy.”

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Kurt Vonnegut Novelist, Satirist
Angry

“Any form of government, not just Capitalism, is whatever people who have all our money, drunk or sober, sane or insane, decide to do today.”

Kurt Vonnegut Novelist, Satirist
Compassionate

“But I replied that what made being alive almost worthwhile for me, besides music, was all the saints I met, who could be anywhere. By saints I meant people who behaved decently in a strikingly indecent society.”

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Kurt Vonnegut Novelist, Satirist
Love

“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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Kurt Vonnegut Novelist, Satirist
Philosophical

“egregious. most people think that word means terrible or unheard of or unforgivable. it has a much more interesting story than that to tell. it means "outside the herd." imagine that - thousands of people, outside the herd.”

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Kurt Vonnegut Novelist, Satirist
Funny

“If you make people laugh or cry about little black marks on sheets of white paper, what is that but a practical joke? All the great story lines are great practical jokes that people fall for over and over again.”

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Kurt Vonnegut Novelist, Satirist
Wise

“My ancestors were all Freethinkers, formerly Catholics. It was science and Darwin, in particular, that made them decide, as educated people, which they were, that the priest, nice as he was, didn't know what he was talking about.”

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Loretta Young Actress
Ambitious

“I don't know many ambition- ridden people who really enjoy themselves. Even success doesn't seem to still the insatiable, gnawing hunger of their ambition. Ambition is a good gift, but it cannot be all.”

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Hugo Weaving Actor
Funny

“There's nothing like being on a massive-budget film where you don't know anything, and there's a million people, and no one's communicating.”

Hunter S. Thompson Journalist, Author
Courageous

“It might be a little rough on some people for a while, but I think it's the only way to deal with drugs. Look at Prohibition: all it did was make a lot of criminals rich. Should be legalized for a matter of sanity.”

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Louisa May Alcott Novelist, Poet
Hopeful

“My book came out; and people began to think that topsy-turvy Louisa would amount to something after all.”

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Louisa May Alcott Novelist, Poet
Inspired

“Young people think they never can change, but they do in the most wonderful manner, and very few die of broken hearts.”

Louisa May Alcott Novelist, Poet
Spiritual

“Simple, sincere people seldom speak much of their piety; it shows itself in acts rather than words, and has more influence than homilies or protestations.”

Louisa May Alcott Novelist, Poet
Love

“The young people were playing that still more absorbing game in which hearts are always trumps.”

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Louisa May Alcott Novelist, Poet
Sad

“…what splendid dreams young people build upon a word, and how bitter is the pain when the bright bubbles burst.”

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