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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
I've raised Michael. I changed his diapers when he was little.
Jackie Jackson The Jacksons
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The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.
Harry A. Blackmun -
In the search for culpability for the tragedy in Ferguson, I mostly blame politicians.
Rand Paul -
I don't think it's good for people to know too much about you. With my favourite bands, I don't want to have the inside track on every single aspect of their personal lives.
Oliver Sim The xx -
In Fall Out Boy, we were all playing with our pop punk influences, so that was always within that kind of framework.
Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy -
Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.
Jack Benny -
The relationship with time changes when you're captive.
Ingrid Betancourt
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It's been amazing how this crazy career has been created. I feel that it's been given to me. I wouldn't be anywhere without Victoria's Secret.
Candice Swanepoel -
When people use their hurt and make a triumph in their song, that helps other people.
La'Porsha Renae -
In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
Nancy Pelosi -
Investment in early education is not a Liberal or Conservative idea. Nor should it be decided along party lines.
Madeleine M. Kunin -
All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.
Eddie Bernice Johnson -
When I was younger, I liked money - the feel of it. I would sit with my dad and count his coins and be like, 'Yeah.' I'd saved £700 by the age of 10. I thought: 'What the hell am I hoarding this for?' So I bought a drum kit.
Cara Delevingne
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When I achieved the European record for reciting pi in 2004, this captured the imagination of Professor Simon Baron-Cohen in Cambridge, and he finally diagnosed me with Asperger's that year.
Daniel Tammet -
It's a good feeling to come away from a day's work feeling like you've achieved something. Tired brain is good.
Dominic Cooper -
This WorldHealthDay we celebrate and honour healthcare workers, who are our first line of defence against the #coronavirus. Your work has been relentless, courageous and critical in saving lives. We want you to feel safe and stay well. For that you need protection.
Ursula von der Leyen -
I'm inspired to work with good actors, period. I want to work with the best anytime because I think they'll make me better.
Forest Whitaker -
You know, even growing up going to school, I had teachers that were against bilingual teaching. I never understood that. My parents always had me speak Spanish first knowing I was going to speak English in school.
Emily Rios -
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