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 love the game and I am so lucky to be able to do what I love.

  

  Victoria Azarenka
  • Love
  • Game
  • Lucky

• 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

• I'll never get out of politics. I have friends in public office. I have things that I want to do. You can't go back in life. I won't go back to the existence I had before of running a political consulting firm and signing up clients and advising campaigns in exactly that way.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Life
  • Up
  • Friends

• 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

• I got picked for very unique and independent filmmaking experiences with auteurs. And I'm so lucky.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Unique
  • Independent
  • Lucky

• In voiceover, you have to restrain yourself when you're acting in the sound booth in front of the microphone. If you lean left or you lean right, you're going to lose the voice. Yet you yourself become animated when you're doing the part. So you'll see a lot of flailing arms, but a very still face.

  

  Brendan Dooling

• Any time I see someone succeed I am happy, for it affirms my belief that I live in a world where success is possible.

  

  Bonnie Gillespie
  • Happy
  • Success
  • Belief

• Our problem today is not how to expropriate the expropriators but, rather, how to arrange matters so that the masses, dispossessed by industrial society in capitalist and socialist systems, can regain property. For this reason alone, the alternative between capitalism and socialism is false-not only because neither exists anywhere in its pure state anyhow, but because we have here twins, each wearing different hats.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Problem
  • Property
  • Socialism

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

  

  Kurt Vonnegut