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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Contrary to rumor, sometimes I can be quite a laugh.
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It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
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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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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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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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When it is important for you to say something and you find a vehicle to say it, then go for it. It is so rare when that happens so I think every minute spent fighting for it is always worth it. Even if nothing ends up happening, it's still worth the fight.
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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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Lord knows what incommunicable small terrors infants go through, unknown to all. We disregard them, we say they forget, because they have not the words to make us remember.
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The world other than as advertised can be an amazing place.
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There are usually multiple messages that could be preached from the same text.
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Mandela drafted the M Plan, a simple, commonsense plan for organization on a street basis so that Congress volunteers would be in daily touch with the people, alert to their needs and able to mobilize them.
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I enjoy seeing young people being interested in what they can do.
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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.
