Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
History is merely a list of surprises. … It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again. Please write that down.
Quotes to Explore
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The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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I think shoppers are looking for newness and creativity. Look at C. Wonder, for instance. They're dancing in our stores. We don't believe in retail like retail was done in the past. We believe in disrupting the whole environment, offering them amazing value in an amazing package of fun, excitement and whimsy.
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My father, I think he played percussion in high school. My mother played piano when she was very young, but only for a brief while. I don't think she had a great teacher. In any case, neither of them were really into music at a young age.
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I am glad that Wimbledon is my last slam. I love the atmosphere and courts of SW19, and it is an addiction, which I will find tough to give up.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
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I have been doing so much. Speaking engagements... producing... developing a half-hour sitcom... working on a movie... leading acting workshops all over the world... and hosting 'My Black Is Beautiful,' an empowerment TV show I'm doing on BET for women.
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I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unless you're a good comedian, you're never going to be able to play Hamlet properly.
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
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Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.
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When I got '227' and broke out from the rest of the cast, I became a workaholic, and I was very lonely.
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I made a lot of movies that people loved when I was a kid, but I didn't have any real relationship to them.
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It's great to design a beautiful, modern, sleek home like you'd see in a magazine. But if it doesn't suit your lifestyle, it's really wasted.
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Booksellers are the bartenders of the reading world. People share thoughts and interests they keep private from others in their lives.
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A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.
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If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes care of everything else.
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I don't mind being described as vanilla in certain ways.
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Happy New Year to all, including to my many enemies and those who have fought me and lost so badly they just don't know what to do. Love!
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Not only must we fight to end disastrous unfettered free trade agreements with China, Mexico, and other low wage countries, we must fight to fundamentally rewrite our trade agreements so that American products, not jobs, are our number one export.
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I try to look nice. I comb my hair, I tie my tie, I put on a jacket, but I draw the line when it comes to trimming my eyebrows. You work with what you got.
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I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones.
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This stuff marijuana keeps me sane and happy. I'd say it's a great drug - but obviously it's not very healthy.
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History is merely a list of surprises. … It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again. Please write that down.
