Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.
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Justice is revenge.
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I think the American people deserve to have the issues debated, regardless of which side they're on, so that they are fully aware of what their representatives and senators are voting for and voting against.
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President Reagan, of course, did more than any other person to entrench the Republican reputation for toughness on national security.
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I think music needs danger; it needs risk.
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I have such a profound respect for what they do day in and day out. This USO tour is especially meaningful because of the friends I have met and I am honored to be apart of it.
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Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general.
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I've started working on a new album, I'm writing a new book... there are a lot of good things on the horizon.
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Japanese people are not known for expressing their feelings through singing and dancing, but I like to sing a lot. I don't just sing to myself in the shower. I sing everywhere.
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Advertising is the price companies pay for being unoriginal.
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People know I have a good time on stage. I love my life. I love my job.
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One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.
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Teach For America would not be able to continue recruiting and developing an ever-more diverse and impactful group of corps members and alumni if the nation's leading colleges become even less diverse.
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Some of the greatest relationship films of all time, the two stars have hated each other, but mostly you see that chemistry.
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I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.
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I'm a musician. I'm not, like, a personality. I've never really pretended to perform that kind of function.
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I was good at math and science, and I got lots of degrees in lots of things, but in a parallel universe, I probably became a chef.
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When I was first exposed to the films of Ingmar Bergman, I found them frank and disturbing portraits of the world we live in, but that was not something that displeased me. They were beautiful. I thought people would respond to my plays the way I responded to Bergman's films.
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Telling is not selling. Only asking questions is selling.
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I don't think music is done by any means. I would love to do it again but it's finding the right thing.
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High Alpine meadows, like their near relatives prairie, desert and certain varieties of wetland, teach us to consider the world from a fresh perspective, to open our eyes and take account of what we have missed, reminding us that, in spite of our emphasis on the visual in everyday speech, we see so very little of the world.
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And that's what I really love, is finding a script and fantasizing and going to a different world and kind of portraying a character that is interesting. Because other lives interest us, that's why we read magazines like 'People' and try and fascinate and drool over what other people are doing.
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Roses are redAnd ready for pluckingYou're sixteenAnd ready for high school.
