Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
I do feel that evolution is being controlled by some sort of divine engineer. I can't help thinking that. And this engineer knows exactly what he or she is doing and why, and where evolution is headed. That’s why we’ve got giraffes and hippopotami and the clap.
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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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The civil rights fight was a very important fight.
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I really don't like going out anymore. I used to love it, but now it's not fun. I'd rather have friends come over and hot have to worry about crazy people taking pictures.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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One hazard of our job on TV is people are always checking us out and noting every pound we've gained or haven't quite lost.
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I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
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Kids get a lot of lip service in disaster planning, but they tend to get far fewer resources than they need. The mantra of 'children are our most valuable resource' is almost never matched by actual funding.
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Since first starting my career, I've grown accustomed to working with actors older than me. I'm always the youngest.
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What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.
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If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men lived its life, and in its life, philosophy would take care of itself and the nature of our institutions would not matter.
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One of the main reasons I am so drawn to Hitchcock is that he planned his shots way in advance on story-boards, which he designed like classic paintings (he was an art connoisseur). It's why he found shooting on set boring - because he had already composed the film in his head.
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I love aging. Why would I want to be 21 for the rest of my life?
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Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.
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I like my hands. They do most of the talking.
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You don't improvise with a Cameron Crowe script.
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But I'm after medals more than anything. Championships don't get taken away from you but records do, so I think I'd rather have medals at every championships rather than times. A world record would be a bonus, but I'm still only 25 in 17 days.
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I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history.
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Movies are extremely imitative of one another. Whatever works, people will try to do it.
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I was doing everything I could think of to protect my husband and keep him alive.
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We shot the first season of 'Hap and Leonard' towards the end of the summer in Louisiana, in and around Baton Rouge. If anyone's been to Louisiana or comes from Louisiana, they know what the weather's like down there at that time of year: it's unbearably hot for an Englishman.
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We never really set out to talk about California on the album ['California'], it was something that we noticed that was happening about three-quarters of the way through the recording process. We were looking at which songs we thought would make the record and we realised that there was this theme coming through. I think it's just a product of being in California for as long as I have.
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Drawing and visual pursuits were first. Music came and found me in a way. Really, what it's about is creative problem solving, and music is a lot more an expression of that than painting is for me.
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I do feel that evolution is being controlled by some sort of divine engineer. I can't help thinking that. And this engineer knows exactly what he or she is doing and why, and where evolution is headed. That’s why we’ve got giraffes and hippopotami and the clap.
