Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
I am from a family of artists. Here I am, making a living in the arts. It has not been a rebellion. It's as though I had taken over the family Esso station.Kurt Vonnegut
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
M. Stanton Evans -
At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that.
Eddie Perez -
The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I have so much drive and passion for this industry and the creative arts, and I want other kids to have that kind of drive, and to have a fire in their belly for whatever industry that they want to get into.
Dacre Montgomery -
If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like.
Randall Jarrell -
As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
Carl Van Vechten
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Hits and flops are overrated.
Kangana Ranaut -
I grew up as an only child and my mother was also an only child, so we were both very passionate about reading. I think I passed that on to my daughter, who went plowing through 'Harry Potter' and every other book possible!
Kate Beckinsale -
Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
Larry David -
We need to understand what innovation will be built on top of our networks.
Hans Vestberg -
I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
Langston Hughes -
We are all born mad. Some remain so.
Samuel Beckett
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My father wouldn't let me take typing in childhood.
Pat Conroy -
Despite my excellent mood, I don't have any sympathy for Romney. If he'd been a good candidate he wouldn't have had a different campaign for every month on the calendar.
Gail Collins -
Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.
Baltasar Gracian -
In any human-rights campaign, everybody must do what they can.
Ian Mckellen -
People, when they come up to me, are like, 'Did we go to high school together? Or did I make out with you at sleepaway camp?' And oftentimes, yes, that is the answer, because I went to a giant high school and made out with everybody.
Adam Pally -
Whenever you do an animated project or a voice-over project it's inevitable that part of your personality comes into play.
Tara Strong
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Disinterring famous people has become a kind of sport in the Hispanic world. Before Cervantes, it happened to Evita, Che Guevara, Federico Garcia Lorca, and Pablo Neruda.
Ilan Stavans -
The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat.
Ogden Nash -
I was fortunate to be raised by loving grandparents.
Ronnie Milsap -
Every now and then I get a little bit nervous that the best of all the years have gone by. Turn around Every now and then I get a little bit terrified and then I see the look in your eyes.Turn around bright eyes. Every now and then I fall apart.
Jim Steinman -
Usually this desire for family limitation has been laid to economic pressure... It has asserted itself among the rich and among the poor, among the intelligent and the unintelligent. It has been manifested in such horrors as infanticide, child abandonment and abortion.
Margaret Sanger -
I am from a family of artists. Here I am, making a living in the arts. It has not been a rebellion. It's as though I had taken over the family Esso station.
Kurt Vonnegut