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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My dad was very religious growing up and a little bit closed minded, and I think me being in the theater, two of my three sisters are dancers, so being in the arts world has changed and opened him up in a lot of ways.
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Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.
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Those men who, in war, seek to preserve their lives at any rate commonly die with shame and ignominy, while those who look upon death as common to all, and unavoidable, and are only solicitous to die with honour, oftener arrive at old age and, while they live, live happier.
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Simplicity is hard to build, easy to use, and hard to charge for. Complexity is easy to build, hard to use, and easy to charge for.
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I didn't have a lot of communication with Elvis. You had to go through a barricade to get to Elvis. It was people hanging on every word, and I felt very uncomfortable a lot of times.
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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.
