Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
Vietnam only made billionaires out of millionaires. Iraq is making trillionaires out of billionaires. Now I call that progress.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.
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I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.
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In Los Angeles, I'm always in Fred Segal. It's become a ritual. I have lunch and then buy lots of things I don't need. Usually tons of clothes for the kids that they grow out of in 10 seconds.
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Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.
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Love is the one wild card.
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I know I'm profane. And outspoken.
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Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.
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I am a big fan of the Gallagher brothers. At Liverpool, they came a few times; they are friends of Steven Gerrard. It was nice to meet them. When I was in Spain, I couldn't speak English, so I couldn't understand the lyrics. When I came to England, I started studying music and trying to understand what my favourite songs said.
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I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime.
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My M.O. is just do what you do and don't feel like you have to make apologies for it. I'm sure there will come a point when I have to apologize for something, but not yet.
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Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
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Because Ritchie Valens WAS the real deal. He was only starting, but in the time he spent in the business, he made big impact. I don't know if anybody could have made a bigger one.
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When I first came out, like a lot of the artists at that time, I had a very polished, very overproduced sound.
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The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
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I think all our characters are an amalgam of people we know in our world and ourselves.
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If I'm in danger then it's usually my fault and it's up to me to get myself out of it. I am not in it just to get an adrenalin rush. No way!
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While awareness-building is a crucial first step, cohesive efforts are needed to translate this into real-world change.
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I don't think about being undefeated; I don't think about what people say in the media about me, whether it's good or bad; I just don't think of it.
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Progress is a choice.
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Progress can be unglamorous.
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We must progress to the stage of doing all the right things for all the right reasons instead of doing all the right things for all the wrong reasons.
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Occasionally we sigh for an earlier day when we could just look at the stars without worrying whether they were theirs or ours.
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Vietnam only made billionaires out of millionaires. Iraq is making trillionaires out of billionaires. Now I call that progress.
