Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

Kurt Vonnegut

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• I'm greedy, and I have a house to pay for and a wife. She has a job of her own, but I bleed her dry. She's on her third shift right now.

  

  Dana Snyder
  • She
  • Job
  • House

• I think it's fun to look at people with big diamonds. I see them in my audience all the time, with the fur coat, a woman whose hand is always out front, or the two fingers are on the cheek to show her diamond. I don't have anything against that.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • People
  • Time
  • Fun

• If I see somebody dancing really well, it can make me want to dance. Or it could be the music. But perhaps the thing I miss the most is that when you're dancing, everyday concerns vanish. It's a unique world.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • World
  • Music
  • Dance

• Being evil is easy.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Evil
  • Easy
  • Being

• In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • People
  • Today
  • Democracy

• Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football.

  

  Wellington Mara
  • Football
  • Nothing
  • Pop

• And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.

  

  Hans Kung
  • People
  • God
  • Community

• I love wearing dresses that hug the body, but then, at the Oscars, I had a big dress, and I really loved that. It's a style I never thought I would wear, but I saw the dress, and I was like, 'Oh my God, that's it!'

  

  Camila Alves
  • God
  • Love
  • Style

• To our brothers in Latin America and the world, we must convey that the Cuban people will overcome.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • People
  • World
  • America

• Certainly we know from our own experience how very difficult it is when you've lost an election that perhaps a lot of people were expecting you to win.

  

  Patricia Hewitt
  • People
  • Experience
  • Lost

• Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Why
  • Need
  • One Word

• I feel fortunate that I'm not a beauty. I'm not a classic beauty. I feel it is harder for girls who are like that. There are fewer parts.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Feel
  • Beauty
  • Classic

• I wouldn't call myself anti-nuclear.

  

  Naoto Kan
  • Myself
  • Call

• Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Art
  • Literature
  • Bones

• When I was younger, I used to be super, super shy. I still find myself being scared of things.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Myself
  • Find
  • Used

• A coldly rationalist individualist can deny that he has any obligation to make sacrifices for the future.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Future
  • Obligation
  • Deny

• Those who continue to fight for a hateful cause will find they are increasingly alone. For we will not succumb to threats, and we will demonstrate that the future belongs to those who build - not those who destroy.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Future
  • Alone

• The blue guitar And I are one.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Blue

• I gravitated to acting out of a mixture of instinct, naivete and opportunity.

  

  Jeffrey Combs
  • Opportunity

• My husband is from Finland, so every so often I'll throw a Scandinavian-themed party.

  

  Sarah Rafferty
  • Party
  • Husband

• You gotta understand, when moving images first started, people wanted sound, color, big screen and depth.

  

  Martin Scorsese
  • People
  • Moving
  • Color

• Prayer is God's plan to supply man's great and continuous need with God's great and continuous abundance.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Great
  • God
  • Prayer

• For years, we just accepted the premise that the reporters from that J-school mentality of neutrality and objectivity were just laying out the facts. We just assumed that Walter Cronkite was unbiased. In hindsight, it is clear that Walter Cronkite was biased, and that he used feigned objectivity as the cudgel to change the American narrative from being a right of center one to being a left of center one.

  

  Andrew Breitbart
  • School
  • American
  • Accepted

• We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut