Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane.

Kurt Vonnegut

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• There's nobody else that can double me - except for a doll.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Me
  • Nobody
  • Double

• Josh Brolin is fascinating to watch because he is just so effortless. It's like watching a really gifted athlete run, and I just didn't have that.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Like
  • Athlete
  • Just

• I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Know
  • Like
  • Jump

• It's constantly fascinating for me that something that feels absolutely right one year, 12 months later feels like the wrong thing to do.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Me
  • Like
  • Year

• I was angry but not at God. I feel that you are closer to God when you are messed up. Definitely. That's when you most need God, and God cannot control what man does.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Up
  • God
  • Man

• Every novelist has a different purpose - and often several purposes which might even be contradictory.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Different
  • Purpose
  • Often

• I was born in the technology era.

  

  Maluma
  • Technology
  • Born
  • I Was Born

• Everybody has a smartphone; everyone is a reporter.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • Everyone
  • Reporter

• What I loved about 'Goodfellas' is that it's a film about bad behavior - but told with great energy and without judgment - but it doesn't actually shy away from the consequences of that behavior in the characters' lives, which I think is similar in 'Keep the Lights On.'

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Great
  • Bad
  • Energy

• When you're used to looking through a stills lens and you have to capture an emotional moment, and that picture is not moving and yet it has to have impact, I think that's the first influence on my style.

  

  Gavid Hood
  • Moving
  • Style
  • Picture

• I've been a jealous person myself. I've been distrustful, convinced that somebody's having an affair with somebody else. If you believe it in your head, everything looks like a lie. When you're looking for it, you always see it - even the change of expression in their face.

  

  Laura Fraser
  • Believe
  • Change
  • Myself

• I have Native American blood. I have African blood. I have European blood.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • American
  • Blood
  • Native

• I definitely felt by the time I got to grad school - which was a great experience - I was like, 'What's the difference between the teachers and the students? Why are the teachers teachers if they want to be acting?' It didn't make sense to me anymore. It's not like you learn how to set a broken bone and you get the stamp of approval.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Time
  • Great
  • School

• There are two things in Indian history - one is the incredible optimism and potential of the place, and the other is the betrayal of that potential - for example, corruption. Those two strands intertwine through the whole of Indian history, and maybe not just Indian history.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • History
  • Potential
  • Optimism

• We must live fully in order to secrete the substance of our work, but we have to work alone.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Work
  • Live
  • Alone

• Well, I don't worry about ratings. I'm trying to win a ballgame right now. Whatever it takes to win a ballgame, we're going to do it. If it takes a four-hour game, that's what we have to do.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Trying
  • Game
  • Worry

• Every society seeks to establish a set of meanings through which people can relate themselves to the world.

  

  Daniel Bell
  • People
  • World
  • Society

• One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Suffering

• Is fame without purpose and is fame without talent really where we are now? People used to be famous for what they did. Now, they're just famous.

  

  John Carroll Lynch
  • People
  • Purpose
  • Famous

• If you would swim on the bosom of the ocean of Truth, you must reduce yourself to a zero.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Swim
  • Reduce
  • Ocean Of Truth

• If you're lucky, I think you know what you want to do with your life. I think that's a greater gift that any of the gifts you might have when you do know, if you know what I mean. It must be awful to not know what to do.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Life
  • Want
  • Gift

• Puzzles are made of the things that the mathematician, no less than the child, plays with, and dreams and wonders about, for they are made of things and circumstances of the world he or she live in.

  

  Edward Kasner
  • World
  • Children
  • Experience

• The Emancipation Proclamation is predicated upon the idea that the President may so annul the constitutions and laws of sovereign states, overthrow their domestic relations, deprive loyal men of their property, and disloyal as well, without trial or condemnation.

  

  Melville Fuller
  • Constitution
  • Property
  • Emancipation

• We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut