Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
Paul wondered at what thorough believers in mechanization most Americans were, even when their lives had been badly damaged by mechanization.
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At fifty, that is in 1880, I formulated the idea of unity, without being able to render it. At sixty, I am beginning to see the possibility of rendering it.
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I've always been a fan of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror. I like working with larger-than-life characters in fascinating worlds - places where the rules are different.
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We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity.
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You can't ask your pharmacist to stock larger quantities of potassium nitrate because you want to make a bigger rocket.
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I've always thought that parallel parking was my main talent.
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A good youth ought to have a fear of God, to be subject to his parents, to give honor to his elders, to preserve his purity; he ought not to despise humility, but should love forbearance and modesty. All these are an ornament to youthful years.
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If we're on long-haul flights I've been known to sleep on the floor so I hear the engine.
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I have noticed when you get a bunch of dudes in a room together, and you just have one woman or two women, the dudes will bro out. And the woman won't get heard.
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I believe in large families: every woman should have at least three husbands.
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Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
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I definitely like to eat.
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A lot of times when I'm writing lyrics, I just think about insecurities that I might have and turn them into a scene. Some things may be true, and some things may not.
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I was amazed to receive later a substantial sum for sitting in my room and talking about myself. If only I could get some of the back pay!
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It seems to me certain that more people are killed out of righteous stupidity than out of wickedness.
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In measured tones he answered Madouc: 'Your condition lacks dignity; you bring ridicule upon us all.'Madouc gave a stony shrug. 'If you do not like what you see, look elsewhere.'
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The boundaries of bodies are the least of all things. The proposition is proved to be true, because the boundary of a thing is a surface, which is not part of the body contained within that surface; nor is it part of the air surrounding that body, but is the medium interposted between the air and the body, as is proved in its place.
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My fantasy is going into a men's loo. And listening to what they say.
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My number one goal was not getting 'A's' - and I proved it. I was a 'C' student. You have to be ready to learn. If you're not interesting in learning, it doesn't work. As I grew older and wanted to learn and desperately wanted inside information, learning was a lot easier.
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There's a myriad of things that go into why movies don't happen right when you make them. If you make a movie in 2010, sometimes it takes up to a year for post-production, and that puts you into 2011, then you have to figure out what your product is, and that takes some time.
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Sherlock Holmes was a drug addict without a single amiable trait.
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Imagine the wars we would've avoided if prior generations had a website where they could debate tragedy and politics in terse sentences?
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I think we still believe that ambition is for boys.
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Paul wondered at what thorough believers in mechanization most Americans were, even when their lives had been badly damaged by mechanization.
