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 had more confidence. I think that's probably my Achilles' heel. If I had more, I probably would have felt emboldened to make more interesting music earlier on, or really go for it in an artistic or songwriting sense.
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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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Your bird drinks whiskey and eats tobacco?" The old man frowned."Just be lad he doesn't like eatin' scrawny boys that don't know their way 'round the Otherworld.
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I am not meet for petty men, the book a boss: They saw not Arthur's virtue beyond the Fort of Glasses. Three score centuries of men stationed on the wall: to speak with its sentinel was not easy. Three fulnesses of Prydwen we went with Arthur, Save for seven none came up from Fort Hindrance.
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I shop at thrift shops probably five times a week.
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'I wish I had been born a bird instead,' he said.'I wish we had all been born birds instead.'
