Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
'Things don't stay the way they are,' said Finnerty. 'It's too entertaining to try to change them.'
Quotes to Explore
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Western enthusiasm for democracy stops when those opposed to its policies are elected to office.
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I've heard though that there is a younger generation of tonal French composers who are reacting with vigour.
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I'm not very bright about money. I'm not domestic either. If I don't learn how to cook, maybe I won't have to.
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If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
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It's not like I'm starved for company - I have a few very good lady friends - but there's only a certain amount of times a woman wants to see you and never go out for dinner.
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Well - I was brought up as a Southern Baptist.
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Carey Mulligan and Felicity Jones are two of my favorites. I'm not so much younger than them. I like that. It's kind of aspirational.
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Last four months were great for me, was probably one of the best four months of my career, playing unbelievable in the clay court season.
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Beethoven was a deeply political man in the broadest sense of the word. He was not interested in daily politics, but concerned with questions of moral behaviour and the larger questions of right and wrong affecting the entire society.
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The necessity to conceptualise has to come very early on, and defining a vector of development for that film also at the beginning of the process will allow you much more freedom as you go along.
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My race and sex had a great deal more to do with what people believed I could do than with what I actually could do.
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Since 2009, 140 Tibetans have immolated themselves to protest Chinese policies that limit their freedom of movement, speech and religion, especially their right to venerate the Dalai Lama.
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We choose hope over fear. We see the future not as something out of our control, but as something we can shape for the better through concerted and collective effort. We reject fatalism or cynicism when it comes to human affairs. We choose to work for the world as it should be, as our children deserve it to be.
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My private life is quiet.
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Advertisers are the interpreters of our dreams - Joseph interpreting for Pharaoh. Like the movies, they infect the routine futility of our days with purposeful adventure. Their weapons are our weaknesses: fear, ambition, illness, pride, selfishness, desire, ignorance. And these weapons must be kept as bright as a sword.
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The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.
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The night is beautiful, So are the faces of my people.
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Are human beings innately aggressive? ...The answer to it is yes. ...Only by redefining the words 'innateness' and 'aggression' to the point of uselessness might we correctly say that human aggressiveness is not innate.
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Each of us has about 100,000 [kinesins] running around, right now, inside each one of your 100 trillion cells. So no matter how lazy you feel, you're not really intrinsically doing nothing.
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Even when I lose faith in myself there is something in me that speaks through and says I am not finished yet.
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One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
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Posh people blow my mind. Apart from empathy, they're good at everything - true survivalists.
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Before a cat will condescend to treat you as a trusted friend, some little token of esteem is needed, like a dish of cream.
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'Things don't stay the way they are,' said Finnerty. 'It's too entertaining to try to change them.'
