Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
Hey - guess what: You're the only creature with free will. How does that make you feel?
Quotes to Explore
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On a large scale, people aren't going to cut back how much they use. That's a pipe dream. If anything, as the developing world gets richer, the world's going to consume more - more cars, bigger homes, more energy, more water, more food.
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To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
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I write songs, and I sing them. I never formulated a plan; I can't tell anyone else how to do this. But it feels right, so I just kind of enjoy it and get on with it.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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We must continue research into new forms of energy and into more efficient use of existing energy sources.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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I've been able to work with great directors in Israel.
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My neighborhood didn't really encourage women, though it didn't prevent women from progressing, either.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.
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I'm parodied as being some right-wing fundamentalist extremist, it just isn't true. The parody doesn't reflect reality.
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What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all - the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead.
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I entered the industry at very young age, and I was like any normal girl at the age of 17 or 18. At that age, most girls are a little plump.
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But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning; and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns.
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Ultimately, when I go back to the stage, I want to be able to do everything. I want to be able to do music and comedy and all that stuff; that's what all this stuff is leading to.
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I don't want to put one innocent person to death to put 99 that are guilty to death. So philosophically I'm a tooth-for-tooth guy, but the reality is the death penalty as public policy is flawed.
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Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.
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The question about those aromatic advertisements that perfume companies are having stitched into magazines these days is this: under the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment, is smelling up the place a constitutionally protected form of expression?
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With me, everybody I meet always has a clean slate.
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Your true nature doesn't come out. So the gods let you do what you want because free will would be compromised if they showed up at the White House saying, 'Take us to your leader.'
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I wasn't angry with God that I lost my husband. I was devastated; I was broken. I still am, in many ways. But I feel like God gives free will to everyone, and people who want to choose evil, they have that same free will.
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La presse est une bouche forcée d'être toujours ouverte et de parler toujours. De là vient qu'elle dit mille fois qu'elle n'a rien à dire.
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From the moment a creature becomes aware of God as God and of itself as self, the terrible alternative of choosing God or self for the centre is opened to it.
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Hey - guess what: You're the only creature with free will. How does that make you feel?
