Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.'
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When I go to my health club, and it's in the basement, you have to take the elevator down. And this drives me crazy. Why can't there be a stairway? At least make it as easy to exercise as it is to not exercise. It's in society's interest for me to take the stairs.
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Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
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My mother wrote a couple of romances when I was a kid, and I always saw books in our bookshelf with 'Schroeder' on the spine.
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I don't think I'm anti-Israeli.
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'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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I don't go out anywhere. I don't go to nightclubs, so meeting somebody in the nightclub is out of question.
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Modesty is my best quality.
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North as well as South, the Negroes have emerged from slavery into a serfdom of poverty and restricted rights.
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For me, I am left leaning when it comes to health and education, on the right when it comes to defense. So I don't know where I come on the political spectrum. And I think this the challenge that a lot of Jordanians have to deal with.
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It's a very Southern thing to be interested in dark stuff.
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I was born and grew up in Fitzgerald, way down in south Georgia. It was a mill town and my family ran the cotton mill. My grandfather was mayor many times and my family felt deeply rooted to that spot.
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The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
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The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.
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As I went to college, I went into radio and television. Now I suppose most people think that's one step ahead of basket weaving as a major in college, but it was part of the journalism department.
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The best preparation for acting is life - observing life and people and observing yourself. All that becomes your library. So when you have to research a part, a scene or an emotion, you go into the library and get what you need.
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I don't have to be a size zero anymore. But I still want to feel and look good.
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Touring is what you make it. I like to organise as much as possible myself.
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Music is my heart, but I see television and more movies in the next stage of my life.
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Many of my fellow atheists consider all talk of 'spirituality' or 'mysticism' to be synonymous with mental illness, conscious fraud, or self-deception. I have argued elsewhere that this is a problem - because millions of people have had experiences for which 'spiritual' and 'mystical' seem the only terms available.
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With great power comes great responsibility. These are platforms with hundreds of millions of people.
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Courtesies cannot be borrowed like snow shovels; you must have some of your own.
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Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.
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I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.'
