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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Here today we huddle tightAs the darkest heathens mightThe snow falls chilly on our skinThe snow is forcing its way in.Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell:We were thrown out by Heaven as well.
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The mid-day sun is too much for most eyes; one is dazzled even with its reflection. Be careful that too broad and high an aim does not paralyze your effort and clog your springs of action.
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Prison makes an interesting context for so many different characters to come together. You get to see what lines get drawn between people.
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There are some days when history is made. Yesterday was one - and I was honoured to be in Washington to watch Barack Obama being sworn in. During his soaring inaugural address, the new president gazed over a teeming National Mall that was crowded with more than a million people.
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During one of my early seminars, there were a bunch of seminar junkies there.
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Roses are redAnd ready for pluckingYou're sixteenAnd ready for high school.
