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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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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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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Truth never damages a cause that is just.
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Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it.
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If this is a dream, then perhaps our dreaming Can touch life's height to a finer fire: Who knows but the heavens and all their seeming Were made by the heart's desire?One thing shines clear in the heart's sweet reason, One lightning over the chasm runs - That to turn from love is the world's one treason That darkens all the suns.
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You ever notice that people who believe in creationism look really unevolved? Eyes real close together, big furry hands and feet. 'I believe God created me in one day.' Yeah, looks like he rushed it.
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Being a working mother is not easy, but I think it helps you choose what's important in your life. If I think about starting a new project - whether it be music, a movie or a fragrance - I always stop and think: Is this something I feel really passionate about? That way, if I'm not at home at least it's for something I really love, and my son can look up to that.
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I grew up in a conservative small town, and the gay characters I saw on TV and in movies when I was growing up were all flamboyant and obnoxious and sometimes kind of annoying.
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We entered the 20th century trying to deal with three ideas purporting to define or describe or explain three spheres of action, development and conflict: Darwin on the natural world, Freud on the internal world, Marx on the economic world.
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This is my principal objection to life, I think: It is too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes.
