Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
Our awareness is all that is alive and maybe sacred in any of us. Everything else about us is dead machinery.
Quotes to Explore
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I think it's a lot harder for the pros to have a long career in ice dance and in pairs. It seems the singles have a little bit of a longer career.
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It seems Palestinians can't win. The language of peace negotiations has always been predicated on a representation that Palestinians are violent and that is why Israel behaves as it does.
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I just don't consider myself to be, you know, an American actor. I don't want that life.
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The Supreme Court is having a hard time integrating schools. What chance do I have to integrate audiences?
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Despite a certain amount of rhetoric, such as 'the second American Revolution,' there is a fair consensus about which events in the affairs of a people can rightly be called revolutions. It is also clear that such revolutions are proper objects of study for the historian.
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If we had a party every time someone died on 'The Following,' we'd never get anything done.
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It's where you come from that's the strange, exotic, quirky, mad place.
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My mother is a proud Brazilian. I love visiting my family in Rio; the city and its people are so vibrant and amazing.
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A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
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I don't go to church any more, but I think that Catholicism is rather like the brand they use on cattle: I feel so formed in that Catholic mould that I don't think I could adopt any other form of spirituality. I still get feelings of consolation about churches.
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America has always been a land of diversity, basically made up of immigrants, and that is something I want to see continued. It's something I'm proud of when people think of America.
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If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world.
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My experience with the Junior League, when I worked in Philadelphia for four years in reference to children's things, is that whenever they were asked they responded. They always responded with sincerity, and they did a good job.
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I can't bear looking in the mirror - I guess that's why my hair looks like this.
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I could have gone to the gym for three hours a day and bought into all that, but I just wasn't interested.
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What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.
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The best thing that happens to us is when a great company gets into temporary trouble... We want to buy them when they're on the operating table. 'Homespun Wisdom from the 'Oracle of Omaha'' Businessweek (5 July 1999)
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If I could dwellWhere IsrafelHath dwelt, and he where I,He might not sing so wildly wellA mortal melody,While a bolder note than this might swellFrom my lyre within the sky.
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Bob Altman got nothing from the TV series 'M*A*S*H,' and the royalties for the theme song went to his oldest son, Michael, who wrote it as a 15-year-old poet!
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Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
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I don't cover golf tournaments anymore - I preside over them.
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It was 1953, and I was still at school. I'd borrowed a silent French film from the library for my 9.5mm projector. It was by Jean Epstein, and it was awful. So I rang the library and asked if they had anything else. They said they had 'Napoleon Bonaparte and the French Revolution.'
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Our awareness is all that is alive and maybe sacred in any of us. Everything else about us is dead machinery.
