Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

The most useful thing I could do before this meeting is to keel over. On the other hand, artists are keeling over by the thousands every day and nobody seems to pay the least attention.

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• My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • People
  • Father
  • Guy

• And so it was interesting for me to find myself very enamored of a Republican president, but Ronald Reagan was someone I thought captured the spirit of America.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • America
  • Interesting
  • Myself

• I am in love with myself, with my friends, with my family, with kids, with life and my movies.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Life
  • Family
  • Kids

• A few months after NASA was formed, I was asked if I knew anyone who would like to set up a program in space astronomy.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • Up
  • Space
  • Astronomy

• Any form of art is political if you make it that way.

  

  D.R.A.M.
  • Art
  • Political
  • Way

• I had never used the prefix 'Dr.' with my name, but when I started with NASA, I had to. Otherwise, I could not get past the secretaries.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • Past
  • Never
  • Name

• The only way to find out why someone decides to engage in armed combat is to look at their individual personality.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Why
  • Personality
  • Find

• Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Gossip

• I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Want
  • Rock
  • Seem

• Music is about the performance.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Music
  • Performance
  • About

• Sometimes, I get afraid it has defined me, that sense of grief, loss and illness. But actually, it is about allowing myself to take hold and say: 'This is part of who I am, but not only who I am.'

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Myself
  • Grief
  • Loss

• I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.

  

  Gavin Newsom
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  • Book
  • Me

• Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Free
  • Independent
  • Africa

• The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how we grew up.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Up
  • Important
  • Story

• It is no surprise that companies do not often respond to moral pressure alone. We need to hit them hard in their pocketbook and on their balance sheet. We need to show them that their stock prices will be affected if their actions encourage Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Alone
  • Moral
  • Balance

• I'm called a terrorist in the Arab media still today.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • Today
  • Media
  • Still

• It's beneficial to play against your type; to be chameleon-like.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • Play
  • Against
  • Your

• Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man's world.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • World
  • Music
  • Man

• The value of life is not in its duration, but in its donation. You are not important because of how long you live, you are important because of how effective you live. And most people are concerned about growing old rather than being effective.

  

  Myles Munroe
  • People
  • Important
  • Growing

• Britannia, that unfortunate female, is always before me, like a trussed fowl: skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.

  

  David Copperfield
  • Hand
  • Red

• I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.

  

  Laura Wade
  • People
  • Up
  • Think

• As a matter of fact, an ordinary desert supports a much greater variety of plants than does either a forest or a prairie.

  

  Ellsworth Huntington
  • Desert
  • Forest

• 'I haven't done enough. I don't have solar panels on my house yet. I haven't sorted out the heating, my car's not a Prius, I f--ing fly all the time for my job and I hate it but at the moment I haven't really got a choice, you know, and all these things. The job I'm in is a job that wastes energy left, right and centre. It's madness.' source

  

  Thom Yorke Radiohead
  • Time
  • Done
  • Job

• The most useful thing I could do before this meeting is to keel over. On the other hand, artists are keeling over by the thousands every day and nobody seems to pay the least attention.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
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