Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled 'Science Fiction' … and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal.
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I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
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You can't talk of the dangers of snake poisoning and not mention snakes.
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I say to my colleagues never confine your best work, your hopes, your dreams, the aspiration of the American people to what will be signed by George W. Bush because that is too limiting a factor.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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People go to extraordinary lengths to get films made.
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Death is so important that God visited death upon his own son, thereby helping us learn right from wrong well enough that we may escape death forever and live eternally in God's grace.
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It's hard not to get depressed when you pay attention to the world and how strangely and corrupt the people in it sometimes behave.
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Skid Row would probably be my favorite Jersey band.
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The CIA now assesses that four nations - Iraq, North Korea, Russia and, to the surprise of some specialists, France - have undeclared samples of the smallpox virus.
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I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician's terms, I don't know as much as real musicians.
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I'm to a point now where you want to play for your fans and all that, but I'm playing for the guys in that huddle. I'm playing for the guys in that locker room.
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There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.
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Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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If you are being weird or silly you can be excused because you are just playing a character.
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Growing up, I always wanted to sing.
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I only get to spend about six to eight weeks in Australia now and I really miss my family and friends.
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That's the one regret I have in all the years that I've played professional sports, that I didn't win a championship in the N.F.L. And that's why you play on any level of team sports: you want to win a championship as part of a team.
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If you thought about it I'm hardly the villain, I'm hardly the one you should be scared of. It's the guy who can't talk, it's the guy without a job, it's the one with scares in his face, not the one clean cut, you know what I mean you should worry about a lot of other things, but not me.
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There was interest from clubs in Italy and England, I believe. But I've never been attracted by the way they play in Italy. Staying in Spain was always my preference.
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The competitive advantage professional journalism enjoys over the free is just that: professional journalists, whose paid positions give them the time and resources they need to commit more fully to the task. If we can't do better, so be it.
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Clay is used to make vases, but it is the emptiness they contain that makes them useful.
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I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled 'Science Fiction' … and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal.
