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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It is painful to be consciously of two worlds. The Wandering Jew in me seeks forgetfulness. I am not afraid to live on and on, if only I do not have to remember too much. A long past vividly remembered is like a heavy garment that clings to your limbs when you would run.
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There can be no growth without curiosity and no adaptability without being able to explore, through trial and error, who you are and what matters to you.
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Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.
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Having seen my mom in community volunteer work my whole life and in Congress for 25 years, it is true as she often says that she sees her service as an extension of her role as a mother and a grandmother.
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This is my principal objection to life, I think: It is too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes.
