Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
Kurt Vonnegut
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You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of Europe having complete control over Africa, they projected Africa always in a negative light - jungles, savages, cannibals, nothing civilized.
Malcolm X
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Life is not about dwelling on the bad.
Lara Logan
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A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.
Sacha Guitry
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That's one of my real goals is to keep theater in my life.
Finn Wittrock
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I don't agree with boarding school. It's not something that I would do with my children, but I think it's something that kind of exists in England in a traditional way, and you do form very close relationships with the girls you go to school with. But it is a strange thing to live in an environment which is solely female.
Gabriella Wilde
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I feel like I just have such the blood and bones of a New Yorker that I can almost imagine better, like, giving up the fight and not being able to afford the city and going out West, keeping a small place here, and then when I'm like 80, coming back here, living on the park and going to the theater.
Natasha Lyonne
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My first-ever car, my parents bought me a red Fiat Uno. I was 17 and just so happy to have a car, so I was very fortunate that my parents were in a position to get me one - it was a secondhand car, but I was just so happy to have it.
Victoria Beckham
Spice Girls
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It's true: a lot of sportspeople really struggle to find something to do when they finish. It tips them into all sorts of strange things. With ex-footballers, it's really scary. I think 70% of them get divorced within five years. It's hard. You go from being really famous to not that famous. Your salary drops through the floor.
Gary Lineker
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The quality of TV, I think, is at an all-time high. The problem with it is the way that we end up consuming it - generally a cable box. A satellite receiver is, to me, nothing more than a glorified VCR.
Eddy Cue
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When you're young, you're stupid.
Wendy Hiller
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I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
Carl Sandburg
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If you're going to dedicate every second to winning the decathlon, what are you doing wasting your time in bed?
Caitlyn Jenner
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'Four sentences summarizing the lessons of History'
Charles A. Beard
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What the Bleep Do We Know was not written with a deaf person in mind, but when they met me, it clicked with them to have me in it. But that happens with a lot of actors in Hollywood, not just with me.
Marlee Matlin
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Separate inherently is not equal. There's a reason why $45 million was spent against marriage equality. It's because people understand the word does have meaning. And equality comes when we accept the same notions and the same institutions for everyone, regardless of race and gender and regardless of sex orientation.
Gavin Newsom
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We quickly erase hoaxes once exposed, excising the monstrous palimpsest, because as with any witch hunt or obvious fake, afterward we can't quite explain why we ever believed the outrageous thing in the first place.
Kevin Young
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I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.
John Ashbery
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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
Kurt Vonnegut
