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 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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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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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'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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While the religious divisions in our world are self-evident, many people still imagine that religious conflict is always caused by a lack of education, by poverty, or by politics.
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Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much.
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All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
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There is no such thing as a free lunch.
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There are so many lovely cities around the U.S., around the world, that it's almost impossible to pick one.
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Verily there is nothing in all Europe so beautiful as Valldemosa.
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Seeing someone else perform and letting me be the critic for once... that's not a bad thing.
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When I left, there were over 1 million fewer people on welfare in New York state than when I took office, replacing dependency with opportunity.
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I don't really care so much what people say about me because it usually is a reflection of who they are. For example, if people wish I would sound like I used to sound, then it says more about them than it does me.
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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.
