Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.
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But we must create in each person a sense of responsibility in order that each one of us can have the right to enjoy all his rights.
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Why is it that our young kids all across America can solve the most complex problems in a video game involving executive decision making and analytical thinking, yet we accept the fact that they can't add or read?
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You must always do what you feel is right.
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We're pretty good at putting bunts down and really good at hitting. I know as a pitcher, when you face a pitcher you know can hit, that's not fun. I think taking pride in that, and being able to hit helps your own cause.
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I started making music for fun, but I had two parents who were very much in the business. I didn't run around trying to get the spotlight. I was very shy. I never sang in front of people 'til I was about 17 years old.
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I'm not really a piano player, but I play enough to get away with it.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.
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Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.
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I am someone who isn't always perfect.
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I'm 80 years old, and I don't know what I'm going to be when I grow up.
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I have a knack for choosing the wrong people.
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People will always challenge you on an idea as long as it has not been concretized by somebody else.
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I grew up in Deptford in south London, and at that time I used to wear toppers, loon pants and tonic suits from shops like Take 6 and Topman. I was a bit of a soul boy, but I had a very eclectic taste in music - I was into James Brown and Bowie; and I was the only kid in the neighbourhood who would also be listening to Chopin.
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My one issue in this country is to get on a firm financial footing. There's not much you can do if you're bankrupt.
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I know that it isn't just violence against women, it's how do we support ourselves and our families, how do we deal with health care for ourselves and our families? It's a bigger picture.
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No one can control the aging process or the trajectory of illness.
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Indeed, this epistemological theory of the relation between theory and experiment differs sharply from the epistemological theory of naive falsificationism.
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'Dancing with the Stars' was hard work. It was interesting and fun, too, but it was hard work.
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The sex element is the most important in the business. You must sell sex.
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I’m not trying to hate on nobody. I love everybody that works towards what I was working towards. It’s a hard game, it’s a hard life.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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People are embracing the thing that made them different growing up instead of letting that thing elicit shame.
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I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.
