Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.

Kurt Vonnegut

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• I want to be here for a long time, so I am going to do everything I have to do to be here. And I want to walk my daughter down the aisle and give her away to somebody some day. I want to make sure I am still here to make sure my two young sons become men.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Time
  • Men
  • Long

• Loser lit antiheroes aren't well intentioned or earnest; they don't care whether you like them or not. They're self-mocking, ironic and inventive; they narrate their downfalls with manic wordplay, rampant metaphors, wisecracks, and escalating flights of spleen-fueled lyricism.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • You
  • Care
  • Ironic

• I used the diabetes as my weapon. Of course, I was only hurting myself and making myself sicker, but I guess it was something I had to go through. I never went overboard so much that I really hurt myself, but my early teenage years were very tough.

  

  Dana Hill
  • Myself
  • Hurt
  • Diabetes

• I don't want to kill windowing; I want to restore choice and options.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Want
  • Choice
  • Options

• Writing is literally transformative. When we read, we are changed. When we write, we are changed. It's neurological. To me, this is a kind of magic.

  

  Francesca Lia Block
  • Writing
  • Magic
  • Changed

• You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • You
  • Living
  • Playwright

• When the 'New York Times' revealed the warrantless surveillance of voice calls, in December 2005, the telephone companies got nervous.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Voice
  • New
  • New York

• The best way to get students involved in science and want to follow either science careers or incorporate it in their lives or to achieve science literacy is to expose them to the various jobs in STEM. It's broad from biologists to electricians to nanotechnologists to building fusion engines. It's a wide range of things.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Science
  • Best
  • Building

• Everything in nature is not just a straight up. It's an S-curve. It arises for a while until it hits some physical limitation, and then it plateaus again.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Up
  • Nature
  • Everything

• I don't get far enough into a boring book to hate it.

  

  Garry Wills
  • Book
  • Hate
  • Enough

• I wanted to get that Division I scholarship and play ball and go to school for free, and I was always about getting to that next step... I was always ahead of myself in some way, shape or form, and trying to envision how to get further along and closer to fulfilling that dream of being free and having creative agency, so to speak.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Trying
  • School
  • Dream

• I don't want to be the actor who's followed by paparazzi, you know? I would like to just do good work and have that work be respected and acknowledged.

  

  Randall Park
  • Good
  • Work
  • Good Work

• I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Remember
  • Funny
  • Hair

• Being able to laugh is sexy in a man or woman.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Sexy

• If you had a really good - battery, it wouldn't matter that the sun goes down at night and the wind stops blowing sometimes. But at the moment, battery technology is nowhere near good enough to use at utility scale.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Good
  • Night
  • Technology

• I have always watched my close friends fall in love, but I never thought it would happen to me.

  

  Uday Kiran
  • Love
  • Friends
  • Fall

• I would love to have a go at a band or some form of music one day.

  

  Landon Liboiron
  • Music
  • Love
  • Day

• Technical knowledge has now become an integral aspect of the Iranian psyche.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Knowledge
  • Now
  • Become

• My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • City
  • Day
  • Walking

• Eventually, when I sell enough units, as they say in the record business, I will stop touring. I'll concentrate on what I like to do... stay in the studio.

  

  Al Jourgensen 1000 Homo DJs
  • Studio
  • Sell
  • Units

• I inherited them, so I got it like that. But I hear you can actually get dimples for a certain price if you really want them. I was getting my nails done once, and this lady asked me, 'Are those real? In my country, they pay a lot of money for those.' And I was like, 'Really?' I think she was from Malaysia.

  

  Camille Guaty
  • Country
  • Real
  • Money

• All of this got me thinking about the history of the westward expansion, and got me to wondering how the exploration of the Solar System would be changed if there were an indigenous presence out there.

  

  Sarah Zettel
  • Thinking
  • Wonder
  • Changed

• I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • Wonder