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

• Time is the ultimate long tail. Even with a big wad of money up front, if something sells forever, the back end is what ultimately counts.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• Afghanistan is very satisfied with Croatia's participation in the NATO-led peace mission and expects Croatia to expand its contribution to peace restoration in Afghanistan to other areas as well.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • Peace
  • Mission
  • Contribution

• The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Own

• 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
  • Style
  • Moving
  • 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

• Experts are able to identify patterns related to a specific problem relevant to their area of knowledge. But because nonexperts lack that base of knowledge, they are forced to rely more on their brain's ability for abstraction rather than specificity.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Knowledge
  • Problem
  • Brain

• Every time I go home, I look around, and it feels surreal. Like, I'm not living out of my car anymore, I don't have to ask people for money.

  

  Bryson Tiller
  • People
  • Time
  • Money

• An active line on a walk, moving freely, without goal. A walk for a walk's sake.

  

  Paul Klee
  • Goal
  • Walk

• By now, the corporations that dominate our media, like alcoholic fat cats, treat this situation as theirs by right... Their concept of a diversity of views is the full range of politics and social values from center to far right. The American audience, having been exposed to a narrowing range of ideas over the decades, often assumes that what they see and hear in the major media is all there is. It is no way to maintain a lively marketplace of ideas, which is to say it is no way to maintain a democracy.

  

  Ben Bagdikian
  • Ideas
  • Democracy
  • Politics

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

  

  Kurt Vonnegut