Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances.
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We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
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You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.
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I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
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I did one touring show with Horatio Sanz. We went to, I think it was Iowa State University, and we were in this field house, so people were sitting on the floor. It started out with 2,500 people in there. We delivered the most mediocre improv, and it went from a crowd of 2,500 to 250 people in the course of 45 minutes. It was grim.
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I am a bit of a Cheap Pete, but I do spend a fortune on books and false moustaches and practical jokes.
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People lived in the same apartments for years. You'd meet a group of kids in kindergarten, and you'd still be with them in high school. No one ever left the neighborhood.
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You just have to work super hard, and if you have a passion, that's the most beautiful thing in life, and you just have to bust out and do it, baby!
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China is attempting the death-defying feat, which no one has attempted in the history of the world, which is to move a billion people out of poverty. When I speak to Chinese policy-makers, the thing that annoys them the most about Western policy-makers is that they're not given any credit for anything.
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Love somebody. Just one person. And then spread that to two. And as many as you can. You'll see the difference it makes.
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Telecoms is a national business. There isn't a European market. There's no Telecom Italia in France.
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'Halo' I wrote with my grandpa in his nursing home. When I went to visit him, he'd often comment on my halo. But of course, I couldn't see. And he always - he had pictures of Jesus with these beautiful halos. And so I asked him if he'd write a song with me about Jesus' halo.
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It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.
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Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is. People lose their capacity to walk, run, travel, think, and experience life. I realise how important it is to use the time I have.
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France has more need of me than I have need of France.
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People read things into my commercials that don't even exist.
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No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else.
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The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living.
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I've written a lot about southern California, but I don't use the same characters. Leave the people in the songs in the songs, is my philosophy.
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But still, if it's true, how can it be a lie?
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Wise travelers always stop short before they come to danger.
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The man who became a big influence in my life was Dean Martin. He started my career in Las Vegas. When I came to Las Vegas, he put his name on the marquee: 'Dean Martin presents Engelbert Humperdinck.' And I'm the only one he ever did that for.
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Call a man 'ignorant,' and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise him up.
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No grown woman is a fan of premature ejaculation.
