Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.
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I'm, I guess you could say, the Chinese-speaking, banjo-picking girl.
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I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!
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When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.
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I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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Bureaucracy kills people's ability to try new ideas.
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I have no problems with remakes, and I think it's interesting. I mean, coming from the theater, we've been remaking 'Hamlet' for a hundred years, so it's no problem to me at all. A good story can be told in many different ways in different places; I just think it's interesting.
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Early impressions are like glimpses seen through the window by night when lightning is about.
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I thought of Jeff Bridges in 'Hell or High Water' and Ben Foster, and I kept trying very hard not to, because you're terrified you're going to write this thing that then feeds specifically to this one person that then won't do it.
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I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'
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I just like seeing the world, and it doesn't matter where.
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Religious faith, like political belief, should be based on reasoning, on the development of thought and feelings. The two things are inseparable.
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Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get.
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I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to.
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I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.
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When you're trying to paint a portrait of a very specific world, you're trying to show what makes the world different. So, sometimes it means exaggerating certain kind of aspects, but I don't think it's that important or it's that much of an issue as long as you get an emotional truth across.
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I don't know how I got out of some of the scrapes I was in. But I know that there's some sort of plan.
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It is the brevity of life which makes it tolerable; its experiences have value because they have an end.
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The very essence of school is elitism. Schools exist to teach, to test, to rank hierarchically to promote the idea that knowing and understanding more is better than knowing and understanding less.
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I was a student at Columbia College, actually, in the Architecture school. Paul would drive in from Queens, showing me these new songs. I can't remember us working it out.
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The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
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The Tour has changed, and I can't make up my mind if it's changed for the better or worse.
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Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.
