Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.Kurt Vonnegut
Quotes to Explore
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An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.
Sam Francis -
Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.
Jack White The White Stripes -
I want to do an American 'Umbrellas of Cherbourg.'
Damien Chazelle -
I have a lot of friends who do EDM music; they had to tell me what a 'drop' was.
Yuna -
I know that I came into the world with what I call 'big dharma' - with a blueprint to teach self-reliance and a positive loving approach to large numbers of people all over the globe. I am ever so grateful for the circumstances of my life that allowed me to be pretty much left alone and to develop as I was so intended in this incarnation.
Wayne Dyer -
The scene that has raised the most objections in 'The Interview' is at the very end, when Kim's head dissolves into flames. To me, it feels gratuitous.
Barbara Demick
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My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.
Kapil Sibal -
The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.
Ramsey Clark -
We're in danger of breaking our army and preventing our national leaders from having the flexibility to confront not just Iraq and Afghanistan, but crises around the globe.
Jack Reed -
From regular, relative skydiving, I went on to freeflying. Freeflying is more the three-dimensional skydiving.
Ueli Gegenschatz -
I haven't done fillers or Botox for ages. There comes a point where you have to match bits of you with the other bits; otherwise, you get a terribly random situation.
Felicity Kendal -
I'm more of a freestyle dancer. I like to do my own thing.
Felicity Jones
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Europe and Africa share proximity and history, ideas and ideals, trade and technology. You are tied together by the ebb and flow of people. Migration presents policy challenges - but also represents an opportunity to enhance human development, promote decent work, and strengthen collaboration.
Ban Ki-moon -
I worked from 12 to 17, six years in a bakery. I was a pastry cook.
Adam Giles -
I mean, it's fun for us to talk about issues. You know, there's no one issue we spend a lot of time on probably, because he gets to do that all day with somebody else who's a lot more expert at issues than I am.
Laura Bush -
My mantra is simple: work gets you work, and good work gets you good work.
Yami Gautam -
When I was on 'Dallas,' I was known to audiences of the '80s. And then when my sons, who are in their 30s now, were going to college, 'Dallas' was the cult thing to watch because it was being done on the soap channels, so a whole new generation saw it. And then I have the young fans that knew me from 'Step By Step' in the '90s.
Patrick Duffy -
I find that all my thoughts circle around God like the planets around the sun, and are as irresistibly attracted by Him. I would feel it to be the grossest sin if I were to oppose any resistance to this force.
Carl Jung
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What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.
Oscar Levant -
Swarm intelligence is like a brain of brains.
Louis B. Rosenberg -
Although it is difficult to pinpoint the physical base or location of awareness, it is perhaps the most precious thing concealed within our brains. And it is something that the individual alone can feel and experience. Each of us cherishes it highly, yet it is private.
Dalai Lama -
I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.
Kurt Vonnegut