Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

He was too good a soldier to go around asking questions, trying to round out his knowledge.A soldier’s knowledge wasn’t supposed to be round.

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• I think the country is very settled in a lot of ways, and we saw that after the Democratic Convention. I think a lot of the bump that we enjoyed came when John Kerry selected John Edwards as his running mate.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Country
  • Think
  • Running

• IM is interesting because you look at your buddy list and, at a glance, see what your friends are listening to, what they're working on, what they're doing. The problem was that you were bound to the computer keyboard.

  

  Jack Dorsey
  • Friends
  • Interesting
  • Problem

• I have a bronze statue of myself, naked. I have these really big curls and water comes out of every curl. It's hot.

  

  Macy Gray
  • Water
  • Myself
  • Naked

• What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.

  

  Harland Williams
  • Movie
  • Interesting
  • Ended

• I don't jog, if I die I want to be sick.

  

  Abe Lemons
  • Want
  • Die
  • Sick

• My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • Mind
  • Know
  • Him

• I know having a Jason Bourne all alone in a field firing at bad guys is much more dramatic, but it's not real.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Real
  • Bad
  • Know

• I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year and a half the editor said, 'Your stories are the most talked about stories in the 'Observer'; you should have your own column.'

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Writing
  • You
  • Working

• My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Family
  • Pretty
  • Dad

• Betty Ford and I were colleagues for years, working together for women's rights in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere in the country.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Women
  • Country
  • Together

• In the late '90s, I spent a lot of time on reservations, and there was a level of poverty and injustice that I had not witnessed before. I was shocked by it. This is federally controlled land, and there was an insidious mix of apathy and exploitation.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Time
  • Poverty
  • Injustice

• Movie-making is serious business. The director and the crew are already under a lot of pressure to give their best to the audience. Therefore, the best part for me as an actor is to act well in the movies and make a jolly atmosphere with the co-stars on the sets.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Business
  • Movie
  • Best

• I had those kind of parents where I watched all of these very sophisticated movies: 'Five Easy Pieces', 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.'

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Parents
  • Movies
  • Easy

• Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Heart
  • Doubt
  • Paris

• Take time to be kind and to say 'thank you.'

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Time
  • Thank You
  • Be kind

• I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.

  

  Yehudi Menuhin
  • Music
  • Mind
  • Body

• A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Business
  • Challenge
  • Economy

• It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Life
  • Faith
  • Enthusiasm

• Keep in mind that television, magazines, movies, and even newspapers rarely show images of average-shaped bodies.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Mind
  • Average
  • Magazines

• So I went into government with a clear mind about what the problems were, and what needed to be done.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Mind
  • Done
  • Government

• I've always hated the way Hollywood has portrayed accountants. They're always little nerd balls, wimpy, afraid of everything. Growing up with accountants, I don't see them that way.

  

  Amy Heckerling
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Nerd

• It is not possible to remake this country, to democratize it, humanize it, make it serious, as long as we have teenagers killing people for play and offending life, destroying the dream, and making love unviable. If education alone cannot transform society, without it society cannot change either.

  

  Paulo Freire
  • People
  • Life
  • Long

• He was too good a soldier to go around asking questions, trying to round out his knowledge.A soldier’s knowledge wasn’t supposed to be round.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Knowledge