Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

My last words? 'Life is no way to treat an animal, not even a mouse.'

Kurt Vonnegut

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• As an organization, Esri is strong, and we're continuing to grow. We're dedicated to this. And we're excited to see what you can accomplish and to watch your work evolve.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Work
  • Strong
  • Organization

• One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • American
  • Alone
  • Dark

• Everywhere I go, I will make a good payday. But we got to choose the right opponent and the right time and the right venue.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Time
  • Good
  • Choose

• I did a lot of little girl groups here and there just to get more comfortable on stage. When you're in girl groups, it's a lot different because if you mess up, there's someone on stage to back you up, and finally I got to a point where I knew I could do it on my own.

  

  Becky G
  • Up
  • Different
  • Girl

• I think people are able to relate to my appearance. They think of me as the girl next door.

  

  Samantha Ruth Prabhu
  • People
  • Girl
  • Door

• I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Times
  • Many
  • Performed

• From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • England
  • Only
  • Spoke

• I think change needs to be egoless. It's not about my leaving my fingerprints or a legacy. It's more important to be part of a process by rolling up your sleeves, being on the ground, initiating projects, starting campaigns - you know, building stuff.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Up
  • Important
  • Change

• A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Mind
  • Rich
  • Aesthetic

• I stuff animals I find; I do roadkill. They're strangely fun to have. They're like easy-to-control pets.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Fun
  • Control
  • Find

• We need to get the corporate money out of the political system and return democracy to the people.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • People
  • Money
  • Political

• Multicultural markets are nuanced but not alien.

  

  Iman
  • Alien
  • Multicultural

• Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • Religion
  • Islam

• It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life?

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Life
  • Way
  • Feelings

• The worst mistake a woman can make is to emulate a man.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Mistake

• I think encouraging young people to twerk might be a bad thing. It's a stripper's move. If I had a daughter of nine, I wouldn't want her twerking.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • People
  • Bad
  • Think

• Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.

  

  Jack London
  • Life
  • Song
  • Short

• When the iPhone came out, every CIO in America said, 'You're not bringing that into our corporate environment,' my CIO included.

  

  Randall L. Stephenson
  • America
  • Environment
  • iPhone

• As an actor, you always want to keep it different, change it up, and, you know, just to keep yourself inspired and work with interesting characters.

  

  Kelly Reilly
  • Up
  • Work
  • Different

• The Bible's been attacked. What is truth? It's relative.

  

  Todd Burpo
  • Relative

• One who by himself is mild enough and void of all offence will become terrible and fierce by being in bad company, and will most cruelly take the life of many men, and would kill many more if they were not hindered by bodies having no soul, that have come out of caverns - that is, breastplates of iron.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Life
  • Men
  • Bad

• Writing about 2,000 words in three hours every morning, 'Casino Royale' dutifully produced itself. I wrote nothing and made no corrections until the book was finished. If I had looked back at what I had written the day before I might have despaired.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Words

• Once we got over the origin story, we could really delve deeper into their lives and characters and angst. So this movie actually has more heart, more humor.

  

  Avi Arad
  • Heart
  • Movie

• My last words? 'Life is no way to treat an animal, not even a mouse.'

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • Life
  • Words
  • Animal