Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American freedom will vanish, if, when they grow up, and in the exercise of their duties as citizens, they insist that our courts and policemen and prisons be guided by divine or natural law.

Kurt Vonnegut

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

FreedomChildrenMeLawAmerican

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.

Jimmy Carter

LifeAdversityExperienceDemocracy

I love to play characters who are stuffy and nerdy who either then have a dark side or are pushed to a breaking point.

Andy Daly

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I just think the mood of the country is now that people don't necessarily want an elected official to tell them how they ought to cast their vote. Matter of fact, it's the opposite, and they want to express themselves, and they have a right to, and I'll respect their choice.

John Cornyn

RespectPeopleThinkChoiceCountry

The fact is I am not having sex. But I feel absolutely ripe for the, what would you say? plucking?

Angelina Jolie

I AmFeelYouSexSayWould

And it seems to me correct then, and I think it's correct now, that job one is get the planning done, make sure the buses are there. When that's done, it's completely appropriate to go around and tour around and look at the damage.

Michael Chertoff

JobMePlanningThinkLookDone

As a director, my job is to protect. I protect scripts, actors, cameramen, designers.

Stephen Frears

JobProtectDirectorScripts

Pre-production and post-production is something that I've never been exposed to. I was pleasantly surprised that you could accomplish a lot during pre-production.

Jason Bateman

YouAccomplishNeverSomethingBeen

My dad was the way he was, but he also gave me a motto: never say die. Just to keep pushing and pushing, fighting until the end. He put it in my head that you're always going to fight, and you're always going to beat them.

Jason Day

MottoFightMeEndFightingDie

To say that the grocery business is cutthroat would be a major understatement.

Jason Fried

BusinessSayWouldUnderstatement

I probably don't have any more of a bigger following on the Internet than anybody else does - I just probably have a stranger one.

Dean Ambrose

InternetMoreStrangerBiggerJust

I played football first. I love football. I'm a die-hard Broncos fan. I loved football, but in the offseason, I started playing basketball, and I just fell in love with the game. I've been playing basketball ever since 5th grade.

Chauncey Billups

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It is such a secret place, the land of tears.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

TearsPlaceLandSecret

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