Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.
Quotes to Explore
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Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.
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I am happy with all the films I've done. I have not become the victim of an image. I have managed to do different roles, and I am proud of that.
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I'm always surprised when an actor goes so deeply into the truth that they shake you to your core.
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On the whole, I don't like reading long books. I'm not a fan of 'Ulysses.' And I haven't quite finished 'War and Peace.'
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Americans are more likely to watch a film in their own language. For the rest of the world, it doesn't matter so much.
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England is a nation of shopkeepers.
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Sometimes those big bloated superhero movies take themselves too seriously compared to the material they were based on. Am I going to listen to psychoanalysis from someone with a mask?
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I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.
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No, I'm not a French designer either. I'm from nowhere. I'm a European, old European is all I am.
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I would probably do anything with David Mamet. He's so great. I just love his writing.
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To put me through school my morn had to work, so I was a latchkey kid.
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I never made a movie I would not take my family to see.
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I like dark subject matter. I'm not sure what that means about me!
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The first thing to improve society is not banning abortion, but making sure that everyone who had a child is in the best position to be able to rear it.
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Environmentalism is a form of pagan fundamentalism. These green wackos are fanatics like al-Quaida. Just like them.
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From even the greatest of horrors, irony is seldom absent.
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I understand the common man because I understand me in that regard at least.
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Oh, how I treasure this freedom. I really do It's a glorious, wonderful experience. I am off marriage - for life!
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I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don't think about it is when I'm playing it.
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I'm tired of seeing American jobs, manufacturing, and headquarters forced overseas due to a tax code that works against us.
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It was a wonderful thing to see the guys again.
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I think foreign countries really do like it when American artists sing in their language. And when you go over there and say, 'Hi, how are you?' in their language, they love it. It makes them feel like you're doing it just for them. We in America take so much for granted.
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A well-fathered daughter will seek in her partnerships men who mirror the devoted father of childhood, avoiding partnerships that denigrate or compromise her. Having experienced the real thing when she was very young- having been taught self-reliance, she settles for no less when she is an adult.
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One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.
