Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
'I wish I had been born a bird instead,' he said.'I wish we had all been born birds instead.'
Quotes to Explore
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Any creative process comes with a level of self-analysis and self-criticism. There's a lot of waking up in the middle of the night going, 'Oh, I wish I had done that differently.'
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I wish I could fill every young man who reads these pages with an utter dread and horror of poverty. I wish I could make you so feel its shame, its constraint, its bitterness that you would make vows against it.
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Of course we wish that more people involved in the leak of my true CIA identity had been prosecuted, but the system worked.
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Let me start by saying I wish no country had the need for an army. But in Israel, serving is part of being an Israeli. You've got to give back to the state. You give two or three years, and it's not about you. You give your freedom away. You learn discipline and respect.
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I must've been a bird in some previous lifetime. I feel like I'm called to flying - the convenience and the beauty of it. That feeling of soaring would be empowering.
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My father always said, 'Malala will be free as a bird.'
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My death is incidental, and I worry very much about my loved ones and, you know, would like to make it as easy as possible for them. Or wish I could will away whatever, you know, the sadness they will feel when I die. But for me, nothing. The world goes on.
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Writing about a person whose struggle you wish you could solve is an act of compassion and also, frankly, opportunism.
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We hear so many records these days that are done with click tracks, as opposed to a drummer.
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I wish I didn't have to perform 'Iron Man' every night.
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Pakistan is a free country, so according to me, in a free country, it's every right of the citizen to live the way they wish.
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I wish I could do 50 projects a year.
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I've always been excited at the idea of performing a solo show.
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I loved 'Monsoon Wedding' and 'Lunchbox' because they had 'real' stories. I wish there are more films made like them.
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All of us in society are supposed to believe that cruelty to animals is wrong and that it is a good thing to prevent needless suffering. So if that is true, how can meat be acceptable under any but the most extraordinary circumstances, such as perhaps roasting the bird who died flying into a window?
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I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.
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We don't have a jewellery background, so we just come up with these things that we wanna wear, that we wish were out there, you know?
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In America, if you succeed, you don't have to apologize. In Italy, success is envied, and envy is the worst, worst, worst thing in the world. It's easy for me to say because I have had more than many others, but at the end of the day, I have never envied anyone. I wish to no one that they waste their time envying anyone else.
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Peoples everywhere wish and long for peace and freedom in their simplest and clearest connotations: an end to armed conflict and to the suppression of the inalienable rights of man.
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I guess we're all kinda searching for a connection with something that's relevant to our past and speaks to who we are, and maybe helps us make a connection to what we are, and where we come from.
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The future should be exciting, you know? It shouldn't be a nerve-wracking experience.
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Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know, Such harmonious madness From my lips would flow The world should listen then - as I am listening now.
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Sharpe had no thought of deserting now, for now he was about to fight. If there was any one good reason to join the army, it was to fight. Not to hurry up and do nothing, but to fight the King's enemies, and this enemy had been shocked by the awful violence of the close-range volley and now they stared in horror as the redcoats screamed and ran toward them.
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'I wish I had been born a bird instead,' he said.'I wish we had all been born birds instead.'
