Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

A joke is like building a mousetrap from scratch. You have to work pretty hard to make the thing snap when it is supposed to snap.

Kurt Vonnegut

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I could have gone the route of a lot of these former child actors, but I didn't want that for myself. Like I said, when I was 14 years old, I decided to quit. I didn't ever want to do it again.

Macaulay Culkin
- Want
- Myself
- Child
I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.

Lady Gaga
- People
- Live
- Family
The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.

Harrison Birtwistle
- You
- Same
- Influence
I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.

Malcolm Turnbull
Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.

J. L. Austin
- Words
- Vague
- Properly
Somebody once told me I shouldn't try to change Hollywood. That isn't my point at all. I don't want Hollywood to change me.

Wayne Rogers
- Want
- Change
- Me