Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
Every passing hour brings the Solar System forty-three thousand miles closer to Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules-and still there are some misfits who insist that there is no such thing as progress.
Quotes to Explore
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Acting was something I always wanted to try. I just didn't know how, or I didn't know when the door was gonna be open for me to try it. But it finally opened up for me when I did 'Turn It Up', and ever since then I've been in love with doing films.
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I've been watching 'Walking Dead' with my son, and there is absolutely nothing in there I find shocking, but it's cool, and I like it.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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I'll never do a film because it's a massive budget and I'm gonna get lots of publicity for it and it will bring something else.
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I know that I am an excellent live performer. I know that I have spent my life paying attention to my art form, developing my art form, worrying about my show and what it is I'm bringing to people, making sure that I give them a fine trade. They get a two-hour show, sometimes a three-hour show, for a decent price.
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Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.
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At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.
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Love is the one wild card.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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Museums are western inventions where the rich and the powerful or the government and the state tend to exhibit the signs and symbol and images of their culture.
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A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way.
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I can't stand going out to one more dinner with some Mrs. So-and-So who might leave a million dollars to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra when she dies.
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Past success is no guarantee of future success, so I have learned to be an entrepreneur. I began to produce and direct my own projects.
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The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
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I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime.
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Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
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My forte is awkwardness.
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There are so many stories from the Midwest that should be told. L.A. tells one story, and it's often about itself.
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I am inspired by Nelson Mandela. I was a volunteer teacher in South Africa during apartheid, where I witnessed his success liberating black South Africans.
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I think at least two of my kids - and I'm - I better not speak them by name because I'm not sure where they are these days, but at least two of them believe in some kind of higher force. The - another is an atheist and the other is still pondering.
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I've written songs sober and I've written songs high.
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Sadly, in the name of progress, we have polluted the air, water, soil and the food we eat.
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It would degrade our country and our judicial system to permit our courts to be bullied, insulted and humiliated and the orderly progress thwarted and obstructed by defendants brought before them charged with crimes.
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Every passing hour brings the Solar System forty-three thousand miles closer to Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules-and still there are some misfits who insist that there is no such thing as progress.
