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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Henry had been around long enough to know better than to disagree. But he forgot to implement.
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There are a lot of bad people in football, and players can be afraid to go to stadiums and get abused.
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When my best friends doubt their little black dresses, they call me on the telephone seeking reassurance.
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English players are as easy to coach. The problem is that the Premier League has the best players in the world, and statistically not all of them can be born in England. But we don't have enough English players: we are working very hard on it.
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The mind is a leaf pile where you can bury anything....
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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.
