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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I think hitting's just repetition. The more you hit, the better you're gonna get.
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The point came when people were doing things I didn't feel competent to do myself. I'm not being modest; I honestly get lost. I was lucky in spotting what I did when I did, but there comes a point where you realise what you're doing is not going to be much good.
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The determination of the value of an item must not be based on its price, but rather on the utility it yields. The price of the item is dependent only on the thing itself and is equal for everyone; the utility, however, is dependent on the particular circumstances of the person making the estimate. Thus there is no doubt that a gain of one thousand ducats is more significant to a pauper than to a rich man though both gain the same amount.
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A lie does not become truth just because ten people are telling it.
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The ability to portray people in still life and in motion requires the highest measure of intuition and talent.
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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.
