Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
Quotes to Explore
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.
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A new untruth is better than an old truth.
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Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
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I've personally backed off from direct political involvement.
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I respect music, I do. I love it.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.
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Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place - that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.
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A lot of hard work goes into making a film. It's not all fun time, as people tend to think. There are always stereotypes attached to every profession, but I found out this industry breaks them all.
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Whether slavery shall go into Nebraska, or other new territories, is not a matter of exclusive concern to the people who may go there. The whole nation is interested that the best use shall be made of these territories. We want them for the homes of free white people.
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The more I learned about Shoeless Joe, the more I felt he was maligned.
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It's funny, because I have periods where I just kind of go dark. I don't tweet, I don't talk, I don't interview, and then I have times where I do.
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'Radioactive' is the fall out of my life's inspirations, a testament to my ability to survive it all and to tell the story.
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Anywhere in life, for girls there's pressure to keep your weight and to keep yourself feeling and looking good.
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In order to maintain that fire for acting and capture its essence, you can't let yourself be concerned with what people have to say about you. You just can't.
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The level of dynamism is a matter of how fertile the country is in coming up with innovative ideas having prospects of profitability, how adept it is at identifying and nourishing the ideas with the best prospects, and how prepared it is in evaluating and trying out the new products and methods that are launched onto the market.
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I guess I'm always up for a challenge.
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A children's author on a soapbox is not a pleasant sight but I have become drawn into issues, slightly unwillingly, relating to young people, literacy and youth justice: just look at the number of young people we have locked up in prison, and the uselessness of it.
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In man's most dark extremityOft succour dawns from Heaven.
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You know, a better man for a better America. That's sort of our slogan.
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I like to call it a 'sacred fire' when you have it inside you: the will to win every game.
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Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
