Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
A sum of money is a leading character in this tale about people, just as a sum of honey might properly be a leading character in a tale about bees.
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I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.
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I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing men's clothes or looking masculine. I loved wearing bright colors and being who I am.
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I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.
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I have to protect myself because people think that because you come into 25 million homes every week, they know you. I walk the line between being gracious and being rude.
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We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
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Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
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Oh, I'm quite the impulse buyer. Most of what I buy is stuff for my Jeep, 'cause it breaks down a lot.
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Music has a tremendous effect on me. When it's playing, I can't think or do anything other than listen. But I can write to it.
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The 'Outlander' fans are super-passionate.
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I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
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I don't want to go to prison... but there is nothing they can do to me that will make me stop this referendum.
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People appreciate and follow the person who can persuade them properly. Make that person you.
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Having grown up as a young Army officer in the Vietnam era, I had an instinctual sort of notion that you have to look very carefully and weigh very carefully what anyone says.
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I think fan fiction is the way most writers start, and the same goes for music and design.
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I've actually had a copilot come out of the cockpit on a trip from L.A. to New York and ask me about Charles Manson.
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Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.
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Art imitates life. It's definitely helpful to feel that way. You feel that way when you're leading a show and you're on a set.
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Yes, you need substance in politics - but I think your style also says something about how you arrive at some of your conclusions.
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Big league defense is going to get outs most times.
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I could be playing high school until I'm, like, 30 or something, at the rate I'm growing.
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What decides the purpose of life is simply the programme of the pleasure principle. This principle dominates the operation of the mental apparatus from the start. There can be no doubt about its efficacy, and yet its programme is at loggerheads with the whole world, with the macrocosm as much as with the microcosm.
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A sum of money is a leading character in this tale about people, just as a sum of honey might properly be a leading character in a tale about bees.
