Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
Like all real heroes, Charley had a fatal flaw. He refused to believe that he had gonorrhea, whereas the truth was that he did.
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In America, black urban teenagers have long been lacking in inclusion. In France, there is a comparable lack of inclusion among North Africans. In much of Europe, there has been little attempt to include the Roma.
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NATO remains the cornerstone of Atlantic security.
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I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.
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I realize we're not promised tomorrow. Believe me, I realize that. But if God blesses me and lets me stay, I love my life so much, it is such a good life. I am eager to throw myself at His feet, but I don't want to get on the first busload that is going.
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The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.
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Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.
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The one snack I really love is YoCrunch yogurt. It's like an apple pie in a cup! You have your apples on the bottom, your yogurt in the middle, and piecrust crumbs on top.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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For man also, in health and sickness, is not just the sum of his organs, but is indeed a human organism.
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If you only write when the muse strikes, you won't get anything done. You have to write consistently, when your schedule says you should. And that's hard.
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Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.
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Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the human content that it lacks, we must participate in the political struggle.
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A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
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I'd been brought up on musicals. Instead of cartoons, we watched videocassettes of musicals at home.
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When you have the first show set in India on American television, there's gonna be a Nervous Nellie kind of vibe.
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Everybody likes a compliment.
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In life, you need many more things besides talent. Things like good advice and common sense.
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I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.
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I don't even remember what Mother and I quarreled about: it is a continual quarrel that began when I reached puberty.
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The results of a new study are out this week saying that New Jersey is one of the most livable states in the country. The study has a margin of error of 100 percent.
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I think the reason 'Sexy Beast' was so good was it wasn't just another run-of-the-mill gangster film; it was a love story.
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Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.
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I've always wondered what it would be like if the Messiah, or Christ Returned, were actually alive and living in our society; who would that person be, how we would identify them, how would they live and what would they believe in, how would society react to them? I decided to try and tell my idea of that story.
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Like all real heroes, Charley had a fatal flaw. He refused to believe that he had gonorrhea, whereas the truth was that he did.
