Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
You want to know something? We are still in the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages - they haven't ended yet.
Quotes to Explore
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The gift of sobriety is clarity and a sense of connection - and travel only enhances that.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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When history looks back, it will prove what I'll die knowing.
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I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.
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When I was sixteen years old, I was sentenced to two years in prison; the Swedish government changed it, so I could go to a boarding school as part of a social programme. I was in this boarding school with some of the richest kids in Sweden.
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As a young man, I think I was in a bit of the revenge business for too many years of my life.
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I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you should write what you have to write, and if you're afraid it's going to upset someone, don't publish it.
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I used to conduct the last opera in Berlin on Sunday, get on a plane on Monday to Chicago, and start a rehearsal that same night, if it was a performance week.
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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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This country wants to laugh. We want to, and we need to. I'm happy to oblige.
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I think that boy bands as a whole are really coming back.
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When I was 13 or 14, my mother used to gift me books that I was dying to read. Those are my most memorable birthday gifts.
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My style is schizophrenic! One minute I'll be wearing bright girly dresses, and the next I'll be swinging towards more structured masculine things.
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The reason I want to show shocking things is that they always pose an ethical question.
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I never, never thought one day I will sing at La Scala or I will get the Grammy. I'm lucky. I work a lot with a teacher, with my coach.
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If you don't have a functioning financial system the world economy won't be revived. All the major economies have their responsibility to assist at a pace which is required to clean up the balance sheet of the banking system and to ensure that credit flows are resumed.
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I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
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It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam.
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As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature.
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My favorite days off on the road are typically nowhere, like Bismarck, North Dakota, and you find yourself in a mall, and you're like, 'This is awesome!'
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Real heroes are all around us and uncelebrated.
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A lot of my films have dealt with the dark side of technology and stress that you have to examine the ramifications of progress.
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It was the same thing in the army, no respect. They gave me a uniform that glowed in the dark.
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You want to know something? We are still in the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages - they haven't ended yet.
