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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So, I understand when they make a mistake and everyone at home is throwing their shoe at the television set.
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The Beatles and Ray Charles were in the same charts together, and that was just called pop music - it wasn't called soul or rock. The best pop music just stands out as something that's just original, and I think it should all be called pop again.
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Modern culture is defined by this extraordinary freedom to ransack the world storehouse and to engorge any and every style it comes upon.
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Spain and the United States share the same values of democracy, liberty and fundamental freedoms.
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The background of any artist is shaped by the first 15 years of his or her life.
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Words cannot express quite a lot of feelings, whereas a noise or tone or drone or sound, an accordion falling down a staircase, can somehow capture an emotion much better.
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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.
