Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia.

Kurt Vonnegut

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LakeFindWillPrejudiceHumanMars

Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.

John le Carre

BookSeeingLikeYourMovieHaving

The United States Constitution does not one time even mention marriage. It neither requires Congress or the states to adopt same-sex marriage laws nor does it forbid them from maintaining traditional marriage laws.

Trent Franks

MarriageTimeConstitutionCongress

It's a beautiful thing to be involved with the Special Olympics.

Luis Fonsi

BeautifulSpecialInvolvedThing

Sarah Palin is a figure of fun on the American left, easily lampooned as a know-nothing, gun-toting ex-beauty queen who loves God and the red, white and blue above pretty much anything else except for Todd, her macho husband, who races snowmobiles across the Alaskan tundra.

Jay Parini

GodQueenFunRedBlueHusband

I think being a teenager is a difficult journey in and of itself, but being transgender makes it that much harder.

Jazz Jennings

JourneyThinkDifficultTransgender

There's a certain thought process about actors that they are in Hollywood and they sit around pools and get suntans and just get offered jobs.

Chris Klein

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People are always trying to draw simplistic dialectics that can capture things.

Cory Booker

PeopleTryingCaptureAlwaysThings

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

LifeMeSurviveConquerMeaningGo

Actors have far fewer choices than the public thinks they do.

Powers Boothe

ChoicesFarThanThinksPublic

I want to be like Tom Freston. Tom just flies around everywhere, gets to make movies, gets to start TV shows, hang out with cool people and do whatever he wants.

Shane Smith

PeopleCoolStartWantMoviesOut

It's not bragging if you can back it up.

Muhammad Ali

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If I don't go to mass, necessarily, every day, but I definitely go to the church every day. That's how I start my day. I like to get in there for about 15 to 20 minutes and say my prayers.

Mark Wahlberg

DayStartChurchEvery DayGoSay

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