Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
The band at the far end of the hall, amplified to the din of an elephant charge, smashed and hewed at the tune as though in a holy war against silence.
Quotes to Explore
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I am very lucky because when I come back home, I have a completely normal life. I can relax, playing golf, fishing - doing what I want. I know when I finish a tournament, I am going to relax at home.
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
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When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.
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Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.
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To find a man's true character, play golf with him.
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The day I make movies that Rupert Murdoch likes and admires is the day I'll throw in the towel, because he's got no taste.
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I've played a lot of mothers in my movies.
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When I first moved to New York, I was still returning to Tennessee every few months to perform.
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The main thing that you have to remember on this journey is, just be nice to everyone and always smile.
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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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Even if they knew the truth of their own feelings, most mothers would be socially and emotionally incapable of revealing it.
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Girls run the world.
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I don't have any regrets. I consider myself really privileged to belong to medicine and do what I do. I would do it all again.
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I always had to diet. I'm diabetic, so it's a lifestyle for me anyway just to stay healthy and not end up in the hospital.
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You can't get rid of it with exercise alone. You can do the most vigorous exercise and only burn up 300 calories in an hour. If you've got fat on your body, the exercise firms and tones the muscles. But when you use that tape measure, what makes it bigger? It's the fat!
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I think that the character that I'm playing now is so fundamentally different than Ally that I haven't I haven't felt like I had to worry about it at all. But I definitely wanted to make a different choice.
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Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
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I'd love to do a sci-fi movie, a western, or an espionage thriller. But I'm not going to limit myself. If a good script comes along, I'm not going to discount it because it doesn't fit into one of these genres.
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'It is necessary to be given the prop that all elementary props are given.' This is not necessary because it is even impossible. There is no such prop! That all elementary props are given is SHOWN by there being none having an elementary sense which is not given.
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I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records.
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I was with a special services unit in the Korean war, and when I got out, the biggest thing I got was a GI scholarship.
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Acceptance is an art that must be mastered if we want to keep our friends for the span of life that remains to us, and presently step off the stage with our self-respect intact.
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The band at the far end of the hall, amplified to the din of an elephant charge, smashed and hewed at the tune as though in a holy war against silence.
