Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
Why throw money at problems? That's what money is for.Should the nation's wealth be redistributed? It has been and continues to be redistributed to a few people in a manner strikingly unhelpful.
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The war changed everybody's attitude. We became international almost overnight.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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You go down South, and they're quirky; they have culture, and it's not uniformly true of our country. Our country has gotten a little blanded out, big sections of it. Even if you disagree with the politics, you have to appreciate the cuisine, the music, the literature.
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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
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The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
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People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.
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I can laugh and cry at the drop of a freakin' hat - all at the same time.
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I don't do meetings.
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My room is like an antique shop, full of junk, and weird stuff. There's a big sword in there. And a taxidermy bird, and a couple of birdcages. And a lot of newspaper cuttings. I used to have a weird thing about cutting out morbid headlines from newspapers, and collecting them. I was fascinated with drowning, which is kind of strange.
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Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.
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Coming from a background of being onstage, you're onstage for two and a half hours and you're in it for the whole time no matter what you're doing. Even if you don't have a line, you have to stay in it.
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We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.
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Milosevic will never stop, because he is fighting for personal power in Serbia. The only way to stop him is cutting the functioning of his war machine. He is spending $1.7 million a day on his war machine in Kosovo.
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One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to you.
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The crush of lobbyists on Washington and purchase of the media by corporations has created a big business-run government and a worthless press leaving Americans screwed and ill-informed.
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Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
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I'm looking forward to writing more novels for young adults.
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I follow a simple formula when I compose. I ask myself, 'What would the audience want to hear?' and 'Why would they buy my CDs?' And the process of answering these questions through music follows. Sometimes, it works. Sometimes, it backfires.
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We should not have assumed that a political space station could be built.
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Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay.
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There's an old joke that politics is Hollywood for ugly people. An awful lot of the press coverage about Washington reads like coverage of Hollywood. Madonna is having some spat with Sean Penn. Who cares? And who cares which politician is mad at that politician?
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I'm very proud of being Italian-American, but people don't realize that the mafia is just this aberration. The real community is built on the working man, the guy who's the cop, the fireman, the truck driver, the bus driver.
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No, in country money, the country scale of gain, The requisite lift of spirit has never been found....
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Why throw money at problems? That's what money is for.Should the nation's wealth be redistributed? It has been and continues to be redistributed to a few people in a manner strikingly unhelpful.
