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Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

Actually, to be an effective person politically in this country, I think you have to be thirty or over, and also you have to be rich, well-placed, you have to be close to power. And I don't think that young people, because they look young, can do much, as I think they are counterproductive.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Power People Rich Think You Look

I have an enormous family because I'm from Montreal and my family's Catholic, so my dad has eight siblings and they all have kids and we all grew up in the same property on weekends and summers.

Family Same Up Weekends Property

Everybody goes through situations like this. A tipped ball, a shoe-string tackle on a third-down scramble by the quarterback where he has 40 yards to run.

Run Ball Through Quarterback Where

Everyone is like, 'What were you thinking on the podium?' I'm like, I'm just like probably thinking, like, 'We're hungry,' to be honest.

Thinking You Everyone Hungry Honest

From the food to the Mardi Gras Indians to the brass bands and the second liners parading through the street, Jazz Fest presents New Orleans in one place.

Trombone Shorty

Food Place New Street Jazz Through

If you say, 'I listen to pop,' you picture this kind of perfect, colorful, polished song. I want to have that, but when you open it, you see this gritty dark - kind of like dancing your tears away. Disguise the sadness in a pop beat.

Tears Song Sadness Picture You Dark

One of my goals is to allow readers to see my characters and the world they inhabit as vividly as possible.

Goals World Possible See Readers

I used to like studying a lot.

Juan Manuel Marquez

Studying Used Like Lot

My mother is a tall woman - as is everyone in my family. At her prime, she stood 5 feet 9 inches, which is quite unusual for a woman born in 1922.

Family Mother Woman Feet Born She

Years ago I wanted to buy an apartment in New York City. I was a single female - I had gone through my divorce - I had three children, I was in show business and black. It was, like, impossible.

Business Children New York City New

Our tunes aren't just sing-along tunes: they're very complex. After a few days of that, you gotta take a break.

You Days Break Complex Take Just

I've got to give Larry Bird his due; he was a great player. He knew the game and he was smart.

Great Bird Smart Game Got Give

I'd lived in West Virginia on and off for four to five years growing up. I'm familiar with Bible Belt, with Appalachia, 'Hillbilly Elegy.'

Antoni Porowski

Growing Up Bible Growing Up Lived

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