Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
This is my principal objection to life, I think: It is too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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My favorite film is probably the finale - 'Deathly Hallows: Part 2'.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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I endeavour to read more, be more informed on gay rights. Whatever floats your boat is my outlook. It's hard enough to be happy without having legislation against you, too.
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Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.
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There is no bore like a clever bore.
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Celine Dion is my major inspiration.
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People always say 'humbling,' but I actually think it's quite inflating being nominated for an award. It's wonderful; it's a great feeling.
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I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.
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I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.
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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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Most Americans probably have no idea how hostile anti-abortion sidewalk counseling outside clinics can be. There's a reason pro-choicers volunteer to escort patients as they make their way past angry crowds to the clinic door.
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There's an excitement to officiating a well-played game. A lot of discretion, a lot of judgment comes into play.
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I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
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Most of the time, as a model, I feel like I'm just a doll. They control how I should move.
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Everyone wants to be a stylist. If you know that's your calling, then you need to intern as much a humanly possible. You need to go to fashion school if you can.
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There's no regrets for me.
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Garbage is the part of your history you don't want your family to know about.
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Sometimes I feel I know strangers Better than I know my friends Why must a beginning Be the means to an end? The stones from my enemies These wounds will mend But I cannot survive The roses from my friends.
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You can't really plan for how that training session or competition is going to go. You have to see what your horse is giving you to work with, and then you tailor all your training around that.
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Live shows are fun - sometimes. But you have to practice for months on end.
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There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.
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The Founders believed liberty came directly from God. With their knowledge of Scripture, they knew each child was made in the image of God. That is why everyone had dignity, value and worth.
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This is my principal objection to life, I think: It is too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes.
