Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
Freedom of speech isn't something somebody else gives you. That's something you give to yourself.
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Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.
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The American tradition of Washington and Hamilton and Madison and Lincoln and TR and Pat Buchanan is of economic nationalism - making America an independent, self-sufficient, sovereign forever country that's able to stand on its own feet.
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I thought I was too intellectual to read something like 'Sweet Savage Love.'
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I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
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Everybody has to agree that the best thing we can do to start reducing the deficit in this country is to put people back to work.
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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
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I do big films just to experience personal satisfaction.
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I really thank my parents for giving me the good sense to not get into anything wrong. There are many people around who like controversies, and I actually wonder how do they do it. I don't have the courage to get into controversies. There are people who love it; I find it silly.
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I try to work out with my personal trainer for an hour, four times a week - we mainly concentrate on weights and running. If I'm on the road I sometimes do DVD work-outs in my hotel room - P90X and Insanity are a couple of my favourites.
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All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.
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Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.
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Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business.
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I can remember as a young lieutenant being sent into the DMZ in the divided Vietnam, from North Vietnam.
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When I was immobilized by fear, I might have a panic attack. I've had a couple of panic attacks in my life.
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My 'Big Bang Theory' costar Johnny Galecki went off the grid. He bought a huge ranch and goes there every weekend. He keeps telling me to do the same thing, but I don't know if I'm that committed. The Valley is as far off the grid as I'm going to go.
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I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam.
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I love performing outside because it's as if the heavens are open and the elements become part of the stage show as well - you know, the wind and the rain and the thunder. It's almost as if there's a sense of invocation in performance.
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I'm an advocate for gay marriage. I have more gay friends than Carter has pills.
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Up to now my involvement in the Tibetan freedom struggle has been part of my spiritual practice, because the issues of the survival of the Buddha Teaching and the freedom of Tibet are very much related. In this particular struggle, there is no problem with many monks and nuns, including myself, joining.
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If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
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When you don't see Jesus for exactly what he was, you miss the whole point of the Jesus Prayer. If you don't understand Jesus, you can't understand his prayer - you don't get the prayer at all, you just get some kind of organized cant. Jesus was a supreme adept, by God, on a terribly important mission.
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Art can be a medium for people to discover universal spirit, with imagery not isolated to one particular wisdom path, but pointing to the underlying truth that they all transmit.
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Freedom of speech isn't something somebody else gives you. That's something you give to yourself.
