Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math, that doesn't mean we deserve to conquer the Universe.
Quotes to Explore
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I'm not delivering lambs on the farm.
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I can paint in jail.
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Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.
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Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what we haven't done in someone else's.
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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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Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.
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Period drama is such a huge umbrella term: it seems to cover everything from Claudius to something from the 1920s.
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I dedicated my 20s, my passion and energy to the name 'Rain.' I always did my best, and I thought if I did, it would eventually show, and even if it didn't turn out well, I wouldn't have any regrets.
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Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
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I like being active and riding a bike around my neighborhood and exercising when I can.
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Obama is a great man who's just beginning to understand the realities. And I'm not just saying that because he reads my books. I would have voted for him anyway.
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It's called 'I Wanna Thank You,' and I'm encouraging everybody out there to blog, Tweet, Facebook, anything about it. Let's sign a petition. The petition is called 'Busta Rhymes Make 'I Wanna Thank You' Your First Single.'
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Film and TV and stuff like that was something that I wanted to do when I was really, really little; like, I remember I used to do these plays with my cousins. We used to do Michael Jackson performances, and I would be Michael.
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I didn't necessarily want to be famous growing up, but I knew I would be a good famous person because I'm not offended if somebody comes up to me and knows things about me and wants to engage me in a conversation.
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Matt Braunger really makes me laugh; I like that guy a lot.
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He makes me laugh, Mick! He tended to turn up when we were having lunch and entertain us all. He bought an Enigma machine! I've never worked with a producer who was more famous than everyone put together.
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America is a world leader, but we should not be its policeman or ATM.
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In my art work, hand painting would take much too long and anyway that's not the age we're living in.
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The Imaginative Child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization
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When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.
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I'm definitely never going to be a biker. I'm scared of cars so the idea of riding a motorcycle is just never going to be something that I'm into.
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I think every director's different. Every director's got his own style. I mean, when I directed, I basically just screamed for eight hours a day, twelve hours a day.
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Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math, that doesn't mean we deserve to conquer the Universe.
