Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

My theory is that all women have hydrofluoric acid bottled up inside.

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• River Phoenix and I were friends for nine years, and I watched him grow and mature, and I also saw him struggle. I watched him deal with the whole up and down aspects of Hollywood and saw him bounce back, so when he passed away, it was such an enormous shock.

  

  Zach Galligan
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Struggle

• We shred every day.

  

  Fawn Hall
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Every

• I love doing eyes - my signature look is a cat eye. I think it's so feminine, and it reminds me of old Hollywood.

  

  Mallory Jansen
  • Love
  • Eyes
  • Eye

• Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Bad
  • Movie
  • Guy

• Who is there that can adequately gauge the greatness of the humility, gentleness, self-surrender, revealed by the Lord of majesty in assuming human nature, in accepting the punishment of death, the shame of the cross?

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Nature
  • Death
  • Humility

• I don't get irrational about it, but I do have a deeply-rooted competitive spirit. Not necessarily towards other people, but towards any obstacle that I set for myself.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • People
  • Myself
  • Spirit

• My quick beauty tip is always have a tinted gloss of some kind to give you some color even if you have no makeup on.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Color
  • Beauty
  • Makeup

• We're overpaying him, but he's worth it.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Him
  • Worth
  • Worth It

• By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.

  

  Walter Gilbert
  • Mind
  • Question
  • Learn

• If you can play live and support yourself, it's one of the few ways you're going to actually get paid in this business these days.

  

  Page McConnell
  • Live
  • Business
  • Support

• When I had my television show, 'Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters,' it was my high hope to convert people to country music. It is wonderful and contagious!

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • People
  • Music
  • Country

• I've never been someone who needs a lot of takes or enjoys a lot of takes. I like the fast thing of it.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Never
  • Someone
  • Fast

• I never identified with anybody. I have always been very sensitive about my color, because everybody called me 'yellow gal.' I was caught in between both sides - nobody wanted me. I love that my audience is there, but I always feel as though I have to fend for myself.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Feel
  • Audience
  • Sensitive

• I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • House
  • Paris
  • Now

• I'd probably put myself in the top 1% in knowledge of blight in the city of Detroit.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Knowledge
  • City
  • Myself

• We here in Egypt are fed up with U.S. colonialism.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • Here
  • Egypt
  • Colonialism

• Truth never pleads or compromises or wavers. It invites and awaits your acceptance.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Truth
  • Never
  • Acceptance

• 'The Big Sleep' would have been a more effective study of nightmarish existence had the detective been more complicated and had more curiosity been shown about his sweetheart's relation to the crime.

  

  Manny Farber
  • Sleep
  • Study
  • Curiosity

• When I was on a major label I felt obliged to say yes to every interview, tour and whatever else. The label is always telling you, 'This ain't going to last,' so I worked myself half to death. I learnt from that and I like to pace myself now.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Death
  • Myself
  • Always

• To me, I always felt like I was carrying a torch for women of any size to be themselves - it doesn't matter whether you're a size 2 or a 22, just be who you are.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Women
  • Me
  • Size

• I'm not a princess,This ain't a fairytale.I'm not the one you'll sweep off her feet,Lead her up the stairwell.This ain't Hollywood,This is a small town.I was a dreamer beforeYou went and let me down.Now it's too late for you and your white horseTo come around.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Up
  • Small
  • Princess

• Remember, many Republicans didn't vote for Mitt Romney. He didn't inspire people.

  

  Donald Trump
  • People
  • Remember

• I don't like a whole lot of flash and superficial stuff; I want a woman that's all-natural, in her purest form.

  

  Lamman Rucker

• My theory is that all women have hydrofluoric acid bottled up inside.

  

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