Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
The most useful thing I could do before this meeting is to keel over. On the other hand, artists are keeling over by the thousands every day and nobody seems to pay the least attention.Kurt Vonnegut
Quotes to Explore
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My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.
J. B. Pritzker -
And so it was interesting for me to find myself very enamored of a Republican president, but Ronald Reagan was someone I thought captured the spirit of America.
Ed Gillespie -
I am in love with myself, with my friends, with my family, with kids, with life and my movies.
Hansika Motwani -
A few months after NASA was formed, I was asked if I knew anyone who would like to set up a program in space astronomy.
Nancy Roman -
Any form of art is political if you make it that way.
D.R.A.M. -
I had never used the prefix 'Dr.' with my name, but when I started with NASA, I had to. Otherwise, I could not get past the secretaries.
Nancy Roman
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The only way to find out why someone decides to engage in armed combat is to look at their individual personality.
Salman Rushdie -
Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.
Vanna Bonta -
I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.
Van Morrison -
Music is about the performance.
Vanessa Mae -
Sometimes, I get afraid it has defined me, that sense of grief, loss and illness. But actually, it is about allowing myself to take hold and say: 'This is part of who I am, but not only who I am.'
Sam Taylor-Wood -
I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.
Gavin Newsom
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Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.
Haile Selassie -
The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how we grew up.
Maeve Binchy -
It is no surprise that companies do not often respond to moral pressure alone. We need to hit them hard in their pocketbook and on their balance sheet. We need to show them that their stock prices will be affected if their actions encourage Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions.
Ted Deutch -
I'm called a terrorist in the Arab media still today.
Yitzhak Shamir -
It's beneficial to play against your type; to be chameleon-like.
Laura Carmichael -
Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever.
Nancy Lopez
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Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time rich and cash poor.
Cory Doctorow -
A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
Edward Albee -
You pay your money, you take your choice. I get the audience my language attracts and I lose the ones it repels.
David Antin -
A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.
Daisaku Ikeda -
She wouldn't shake my hand! I said 'C'mon, be a gentleman'.
Kathy Griffin -
The most useful thing I could do before this meeting is to keel over. On the other hand, artists are keeling over by the thousands every day and nobody seems to pay the least attention.
Kurt Vonnegut