Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

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Kurt Vonnegut

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• Our way is straight and clear - the building up of a socialist democracy at home, with freedom and prosperity for all, and the maintenance of world peace and friendship with all nations abroad.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Up
  • World
  • Home

• I don't particularly get nervous about anything.

  

  Fabrice Muamba
  • Anything
  • Get
  • Nervous

• I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Time
  • Light
  • Football

• My general take on American music since 1969 is that it's just getting stiffer and people are getting more uptight - audience, performance, and palace guard.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • People
  • Music
  • American

• Zionism is a revolutionary process. And in a revolution, you must be ready not to think too much about sentiments or human weaknesses.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • Think
  • Revolution
  • Process

• For Bitcoin, if it becomes a thing, it will become an enormous thing. It will be world-changing. But if it's nothing, it's nothing. There is no in between.

  

  Adam Draper
  • World
  • Nothing
  • Will

• When my body feels good, I feel more energized and alive, and that's sexy. I'm taking care of this body God gave me.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Good
  • God
  • Sexy

• To me, 'rock star' conjures up something like a mystic: someone who sees himself as above other people, someone who has the key to the secret that people want to know.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Up
  • Me

• I tend to listen to country music more than Cuban music.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Music
  • Country
  • Listen

• Every country I would go to, even if it was just on a modeling job, I would go to their markets. If I went to Morocco for 'Elle' magazine, I would be in the spice markets during my off time and just come back with a suitcase full of stuff that I really wanted to try.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Time
  • Country
  • Job

• I like to think of myself as a 'Mord the jailer' type.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Type

• Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Free
  • Earth
  • Religious

• How is it even sustainable in 21st-century America that women earn, on average, 77 cents for every dollar earned by men?

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Men
  • Women
  • America

• My best nutrition tip is to eat things you like that are low in calories and fat. Some of my favorites are chicken, rice, assorted veggies, egg white omelets, turkey sandwiches and protein shakes.

  

  Nate Holland
  • Best
  • Fat
  • Egg

• Success is not a matter of mastering subtle, sophisticated theory but rather of embracing common sense with uncommon levels of discipline and persistence.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Success
  • Matter
  • Discipline

• Come to the sunset tree!The day is past and gone;The woodman’s axe lies free,And the reaper’s work is done.

  

  Felicia Hemans
  • Work
  • Done
  • Free

• Don't believe that jazz about there's nothing you can do, 'turn on and drop out, man' - because you've got to turn on and drop in, or they're going to drop all over you.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Believe

• Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn’t want me to be too famous too young.

  

  Duke Ellington
  • Famous
  • Fate

• Many who have never had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confound it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination.

  

  Sofia Kovalevskaya
  • Science
  • Reality
  • Opportunity

• The death penalty is ineffective as a deterrent, and the appeals process is expensive and cruel to the surviving family members.

  

  Martin O'Malley
  • Family
  • Death

• It doesn't need to be imagined, it needs to be written down.

  

  Philip Glass
  • Imagined

• There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tower high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Heart
  • Beauty
  • Shadow

• We don't piss in your ashtrays,So please don't throw cigarettes in our urinals.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut