Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

Time is liquid. One moment is no more important than any other and all moments quickly run away.

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• I was taught from a very early age that I had to work twice as hard to get half as much. That was the world I grew up in - a very strong work ethic.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Up
  • World
  • Work

• I voted for Barack Obama.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • Barack Obama
  • Obama
  • Barack

• I was considered an ugly duckling.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Ugly
  • Considered

• I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Love
  • Speak
  • Excited

• Women with minimal access to resources and no access to child care have limited choices that too often mean low-wage and part-time labor. In rural communities in the developing world, when women farmers have unequal access to fertilizers or training, their farm productivity lags behind men.

  

  Lael Brainard
  • Time
  • World
  • Men

• You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • You
  • Questions
  • Ask

• Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Taken

• I love wearing men's clothing and underwear.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Men
  • Wear
  • Clothing

• I think 'Tap Dogs' has lasted so long because people have a natural interest in tap dancing. This form of dancing can't be dated, it's such an intriguing form of dance because the feet are also an an instrument.

  

  Adam Garcia
  • People
  • Long
  • Dance

• I've already established my (political)machinery. It's like a car. It's fixed already. You just have to get in and drive it.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Political
  • You
  • Car

• It's nice to have my mother as someone I can talk to about acting. My dad's a director, so when he comes to watch me on set, he think it's his set. He's always telling a production assistant, 'Can you get me five donuts?'

  

  Zoey Deutch
  • Mother
  • Nice
  • Director

• Looking out at the ocean, it's easy to feel small - and to imagine all your troubles, suddenly insignificant, slipping away. Earth's seven oceans seem vast and impenetrable, but a closer look tells another story.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Earth
  • Small
  • Ocean

• As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Character
  • Want
  • Play

• Over the next decade, there will be disruption as significant as the Internet was for publishing, where blockchain is going to disrupt dozens of industries, one being capital markets and Wall Street.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
  • Wall
  • Will
  • Street

• I went through the extremes of amazing notoriety and also the dreaded things that you never thought you'd have to live through. Not everything works the way you want it to, but if I sit back and think, 'Am I happy about this?' Yeah. I wouldn't have done anything any better.

  

  Ralph Lauren
  • Live
  • Done
  • Happy

• The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.

  

  Gail Godwin
  • Always
  • Will
  • Act

• I think I always try to be accommodating and open and available and proving for my director. I love to give as many takes as they want. I love to give them as many choices as they want.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Love
  • Think
  • Choices

• Intimate scenes on a movie set are just dry, bizarre things; people standing around.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • People
  • Movie
  • Just

• I drink a gallon of water a day.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Day
  • Water
  • Drink

• It's a fact. So why aren't we pumping our fists in the air and cheering about it? Well probably because when we admit we can do something about it, we've got to do something about it. For the first time in history we have the know how, we have the cash, we have the lifesaving drugs, but do we have the will?

  

  Bono U2
  • Time
  • Why
  • History

• I've been lucky, I've had movies that made a lot of money, so I don't feel like I have to kill every time out. I don't want that pressure. I don't need it.

  

  Bill Murray
  • Time
  • Money

• Vitally important for a young man or woman is, first, to realize the value of education and then to cultivate earnestly, aggressively, ceaselessly, the habit of self-education.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Men
  • Important
  • Knowledge

• Time is liquid. One moment is no more important than any other and all moments quickly run away.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • Time
  • Important
  • Moments