Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake.

Kurt Vonnegut

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 11, 1922 - April 11, 2007

Topics

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An ordinary life used to look something like this: born into a growing family, you help rear your siblings, have the first of your own half-dozen or even dozen children soon after you're grown, and die before your youngest has left home.

Jill Lepore

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When it comes to matters of pro sports, politics or palate, disparate sides claim their party, team and cola to be superior.

Jen Lancaster

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To the Kenyan families, school doesn't really matter because none of them are going on to college. Almost all of drop out of school and so, they're spending their time learning things that are important to them.

Robert Sternberg

LearningTimeSchoolCollegeMatter

Something I learned as an actor was which scenes needed to be rehearsed and which actors are good with rehearsal, which actors learn from it, and which ones grow stale because they start to second-guess themselves.

Angelina Jolie

GoodStartGrowLearnActorBecause

We can speak about the institution, but ultimately the bar is the group that both is in touch with the public on the one hand and understands the judicial institution on the other.

Stephen Breyer

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It is tough for an actress to raise her voice on sexual harassment because the chances are they will question your character, they will ruin your career, and they will defeat you in the power game. So one has to be very strong to fight against these white-collar mafias.

Shilpa Shinde

CharacterPowerFightGameStrong

I don't know if this is the kind of retrospective analysis that people are fond of applying to their work or actions, but it feels like I knew I was going to be famous and I knew that an element of that would be traumatic, so that if I could make myself something big and otherworldly, it would be a kind of defence.

Russell Brand

WorkMyselfPeopleFamousKnowKind

The last thing I want is for people to go through the motions in life. We're all meant to do different things, but there's a lot of opportunity for us to do some great things.

Apolo Ohno

LifeOpportunityGreatPeopleWant

If you choose to do something, then you shouldn't say it's a sacrifice, because nobody forced you to do it.

Aung San Suu Kyi

SacrificeYouChooseNobodySay

You hate to see yourself do one draft of a script and then have somebody else come back in and change what you've done.

Thomas Lennon

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I was supposed to be on the Tonight Show but I broke my shoulder instead.

Rip Taylor

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Like a lot of people, I have been a leader in some things, and I've been a follower in some things. I know how to work on a team. And most of life, frankly, to get things done you have to get done, you've got to work as a team.

Tim Kaine

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