Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

I consider anybody a twerp who hasn't read 'Democracy in America' by Alexis de Tocqueville. There can never be a better book than that one on the strengths and vulnerabilities inherent in our form of government.

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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Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.

John Denham

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Go on - but don't think you can kill my confidence. I've had experts doing it for years.

John Osborne

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Love is my religion - I could die for it.

John Keats

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Your typical business just measures the metrics that have to do with the profitability of the business one way or another. But you can have metrics that measure employee happiness and the morale. You can also do direct customer surveys; you can track it over time. You can do supplier satisfaction scores as well.

John Mackey

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A community that sees so clearly its own disadvantage or its own hardships also has a harder time seeing its potential: its ability to work together to change the community and change their lives.

Matthew Desmond

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My folks always let me go to the movies every Saturday. We were really motion-picture goers.

John Wayne

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The song 'Baby Baby,' I so love that song because I wrote it about my first daughter.

Amy Grant

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My dad's whole family is in Madras and I was born in America so we didn't have that big Indian community. I don't really have anything interesting to say about it. When I talk about it people are like, 'meh, let's talk about something else.'

Mindy Kaling

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At Olduvai, for 20 years, Mary and I had investigated and made a general survey of the overall geology.

Louis Leakey

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I have a thing for men's boxer briefs and a tank top. If I'm wearing them, I'm a happy gal.

Liz Vassey

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As a Jew, I was taught that it was ethically imperative to speak up and to speak out against arbitrary state violence. That was part of what I learned when I learned about the Second World War and the concentration camps.

Judith Butler

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What I loved about 'War Dogs' was the fact that the tone - turning that story into a spectacular two hour ride is just such a complicated thing to do.

Jason Blum

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