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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What was sleep? A blessing, a respite from life, an echo of death, a demanding nuisance?
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All of life is a foreign country.
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The first house I bought was a little Spanish bungalow on Clinton Street in West Hollywood, right behind the Improv. I was renting it, and I asked the owners if I could buy it, and they were really nice and let me work out a deal. And I fixed it up and later sold it. That was when I realized that if you make some improvements, you can make money.
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She was made up of more, too. She was the books she read in the library. She was the flower in the brown bowl. Part of her life was made from the tree growing rankly in the yard. She was the bitter quarrels she had with her brother whom she loved dearly. She was Katie's secret, despairing weeping. She was the shame of her father stumbling home drunk. She was all of these things and of something more...It was what God or whatever is His equivalent puts into each soul that is given life - the one different thing such as that which makes no two fingerprints on the face of the earth alike.
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I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.
