Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
If you actually are an educated, thinking person, you will not be welcome in Washington DC.
Quotes to Explore
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The Enlightenment view of mankind is a complete myth. It leads us into thinking we're sane and rational creatures most of the time, and we're not.
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I love making smoothies post-workout. My favorite - depending on the day - is either a chocolate whey protein shake with banana and peanut butter, or one with vanilla and berries.
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Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!
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From my intimate discussions with President Obama, it is evident that India figures significantly in American geo-political, economic and strategic thinking. India is the largest democracy in the world.
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My grandmother was always upbeat, a naturally happy person. I think I got that from her.
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For centuries, building materials were free. You want to build a house, you cut down some trees. But we haven't been thinking about the cost to the planet.
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I think of the past and the future as well as the present to determine where I am, and I move on while thinking of these things.
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As an actor, you're not kind of thinking about your own work or watching the movie for the first time.
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What I think you are going to see is with DACA being gone, it gets rid of the magnet of drawing people over here, thinking they are going to come in and get amnesty.
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We've gone too far in thinking we can re-create an American democratic paradise in the Middle East.
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Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.
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I have always known that New Hampshire is a special place, with a community of people who come together to solve our common challenges.
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In England, everyone believes if you think, then you don't feel. But all my novels are about joining together thinking and feeling.
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As soon as you've written it, you're thinking about how it can move into different mediums.
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Writing is one of the few activities where quantity will inevitably make quality. The more you write, the better you're going to get at it.
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You don't stop thinking about women just because your wife dies. It's terrible, but you know. I just want the hugs, the kisses. A kiss!
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With words woven into almost every detail of his life, it seems amazing that Mr. Mets' thinking on the subject of language should be so limited.
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(To someone at New York University) If you consistently take an antagonistic approach, however, people are going to start thinking you're from New York.
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There are only three reasons to do a movie: the cast, the director, the role. Like I say, you live in a minute of screen time, but to prepare for the minute takes much more than a day. You'd better be excited about what those moments are, even if they're the hardest moments. Or the smallest.
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The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry.
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Perhaps he was afraid as I was that we'd be caught. Or perhaps he was breathing me in just as I was letting him come into my lungs, my eyes, my heart.
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The hills and valleys of Heaven will be to those you now experience not as a copy is to an original, nor as the substitute is to the genuine article, but as the flower to the root, or the diamond to the coal.
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Since we’re all longtime friends, making music was a good excuse to hang out together.
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If you actually are an educated, thinking person, you will not be welcome in Washington DC.
