Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
I don't care if I'm remembered or not when I'm dead. (A scientist I knew at General Electric, who was married to a woman named Josephine, said to me, 'Why should I buy life insurance? If I die, I won't care what's happening to Jo. I won't care about anything. I'll be dead.')
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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.
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I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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If you play good cricket, a lot of bad things get hidden.
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I'll never do a film because it's a massive budget and I'm gonna get lots of publicity for it and it will bring something else.
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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Film can be exciting, but more often, it's tedious.
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By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
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There are millions of people who consume music illegally every month. Just getting them into a legal service will make the music industry way bigger than it's ever been before.
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I do feel like there's a level of ridiculousness going on in electronic music... It's getting borderline absurd out there.
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I said I would do all the films about the commercials, and the films about ball-bearings and Ford tractors and so on, if once a year they gave me money for a free film.
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I wish that the Democrats would put some effort into Social Security reform, illegal immigration's reform, tax reform, or some of the other real issues that are out there.
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It seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict, we must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a world government patterned after our own government with a legislature, executive and judiciary, and police to enforce its international laws and keep the peace.
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Our family suffers from a hereditary condition called, generally, mental illness. Specifically, multiple family members in successive generations have suffered from either bipolar disorder or schizophrenia.
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No state can match the beauty of the Chesapeake Bay, our beaches and farms, or the mountains of Western Maryland, the Port of Baltimore, or the historic charm of every corner of our state.
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The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.
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Give the peasants neither life nor death.
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Being an entrepreneur is my dream job, as it tests ones tenacity.
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There's nothing quite as powerful as people feeling they can have impact and make a difference. When you've got that going for you, I think it's a very powerful way to implement change.
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English is weak in describing emotional states or intensities of interpersonal relationships.
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I think it would be folly to expect that women will ever dominate or even approach equal representation in a large number of areas simply because their aptitudes, abilities and interests are different for physiological reasons.
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Life is precious, and when someone dies it's an opportunity to realise how precious it is. My brother drowned when I was 17. He was 15. I think I grew from that. My father didn't. It really crushed him.
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Shells sink, dreams float. Life's good on our boat.
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I don't care if I'm remembered or not when I'm dead. (A scientist I knew at General Electric, who was married to a woman named Josephine, said to me, 'Why should I buy life insurance? If I die, I won't care what's happening to Jo. I won't care about anything. I'll be dead.')
