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People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.


Kurt Vonnegut

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MINDY KALING You really can't stereotype people or put them in boxes, it's unfair.
KESHA I still have boxes and boxes of fan mail that I still go through, ... It's really been something tha...
STEVE MOORE I used to feel that if I say something's wrong, I have to say how it could be made right. But wh...
ETGAR KERET I know there are a lot of people out there who have the best intentions but not the voice, so it'...
CARL LEWIS If you deny people their own voice, you'll have no idea of who they were.
ALICE WALKER Reorganization to me is shuffling boxes, moving boxes around. Transformation means that you're r...
LOUIS V. GERSTNER, JR. Even though I have Twitter, I only use it to say, 'Oh, this is coming out.' I would never vo...
FAYE MARSAY Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but...
KURT VONNEGUT There's something about Vonnegut's deadpan irony that I really like. And I like Borges' ...
RUTH OZEKI My favorite book is anything by Kurt Vonnegut - he's my literary hero. I got to meet him several...
STEVEN WRIGHT You have to feel good in what you're wearing; if you don't feel good it's not going to l...
B.O.B It's important to raise your voice in things you feel passionate about and things that you know ...
ZENDAYA As Richard Pryor was to Eddie Murphy, that's what Kurt Vonnegut was to me.
CHRISTOPHER MOORE In my case, I write in the past because I'm not really part of the present. I have nothing valid...
PATRICK O'BRIAN I would love to be a voice in this maelstrom of chaos and obsessive celebrity infatuation that says,...
ZACHARY QUINTO I try to beat back the producers and engineers so they - there's not an excess of stuff used to ...
IGGY POP As you get better and better working out, there's no one who can keep up with you running. If yo...
GEORGE FOREMAN Movie directors, or should I say people who create things, are very greedy and they can never be sat...
AKIRA KUROSAWA Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON You don't know that you'll ever have to talk about the skeleton in your closet.
MARK MCGWIRE It's funny - it's called 'The Voice,' but I sure as hell didn't have the best vo...
CASSADEE POPE We don't feel we have dissension. I just feel they have another opinion. We say come in and talk abo...
ANTONIO DAVIS When I was young, there weren't any teenage girls I could relate to in film. They were all put i...
BEL POWLEY Older people say, 'Oh I loved you in 'Sense and Sensibility,' and that's the only fi...
ALAN RICKMAN It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
JUDE WATSON If there's three boxes that say 'Single', 'In a Relationship,' and the third one...
BRYSON TILLER Yes, they have them right now. They went back to 1987, boxes and boxes, and they are looking at them...
ARCHIE SEALE I just use fashion as an excuse to talk about politics. Because I'm a fashion designer, it gives...
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD I'm a fan boy when it comes to Michael Buble. He's just so good at 'it'. He's go...
ROBBIE WILLIAMS A walk?" said Catharine.
"One foot in front of the other," said Newt, "through leaves, over bri...
KURT VONNEGUT JR. I just wanted to show people - maybe I'm wrong - that I can still really sing. I can sing better...
DAN HILL I'm always fascinated when people really fervently believe, because I have such a hard time beli...
CONOR OBERST I want to make the music that's not there anymore. I'm so passionate about the singing voice...
SAM SMITH People say Malala's voice is being sold to the world. But I see it as Malala's voice reachin...
MALALA YOUSAFZAI The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your he...
WATT KEY I find myself listening to Talk Talk on repeat while I'm doing gardening in upstate New York. Th...
PARKER POSEY There are people, radio talk show hosts, those kind of people, it's their job to only have one o...
DANNY BONADUCE There's something about me that suggests I don't have an intelligent atom in me at all. So p...
JENNIFER COOLIDGE I still had this idea that there was a whole world of marvelous golden people somewhere, as far ahea...
RICHARD YATES Marketers used to put people into boxes. Now, they say 'Here's the box!' and everyone jumps in for t...
JAY NEWELL Some asteroids have us in their sights. Be nice to sort of go near them and find out what they'r...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON I think it's so important as an artist to stand up for what you believe in, and I think that if ...
BETTY WHO I'll get boxes full of books and objects from perfect strangers in the oddest places. Teachers w...
DONALD BAECHLER As an actor, you have many tools - your body, your voice, your emotions, mentally. In film, you have...
HUGH JACKMAN The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep...
YOLANDA ADAMS Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who've never done anything because i...
JAY-Z When my voice breaks, it recovers automatically. I don't do anything special to maintain my voic...
ARIJIT SINGH It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea.
JUDE WATSON For myself, for a long time... maybe I felt inauthentic or something, I felt like my voice wasn'...
TOM HIDDLESTON Don't do it, because you have to do it. Do it, because you love to do it.
PRITISH PATTANAIK To learn, sometimes you have to feel the fool.
JEFFREY FRY You don't really have to go anywhere in particular in New York City to have a good time. In ever...
TIBOR FISCHER I've been into Sonic Youth since junior high school. I think I kind of have ADD, so it's goo...
NORMAN REEDUS My own singing voice is not very good and I don't think that anybody really sings in their own v...
JANE HORROCKS He made the boxes because he was lonely. He didn't have anyone to love, and he made the boxes so he ...
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER I think there's something in people where they often want to describe their personal experiences...
JAMIE JOHNSON People get up, they go to work, they have their lives, but you'll never see the headlines say, &...
JOHN MALKOVICH I think I have allowed my voice to experiment with the different genres. And I think that I have jus...
K. D. LANG When you raise your voice in song to express what's going on deep inside of you, I think people ...
JANE LYNCH It's so cheap to store all data. It's cheaper to keep it than to delete it. And that means p...
MIKKO HYPPONEN People love scandal; people love drama. They love stripping away the layers to see what's really...
JULIA ROBERTS I'll meet listeners who tell me what a great voice I have. But I don't have a great voice fo...
IRA GLASS Independent films have a certain freedom about them - there isn't so much at stake in terms of m...
TONI COLLETTE If it's a good cause, I'll play just about anything.
EDDIE VEDDER Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'v...
C. S. LEWIS Just getting young kids excited about hockey, then they'll want to skate, they'll want to st...
HENRY SAMUELI That guy in a twenty-five cent bleacher seat is as much entitled to know a call as the guy in the bo...
BILL KLEM For books I want to keep reading, it's definitely the voice. It must be a voice I've never h...
AMY TAN The extra boxes will be put to good use. We can repackage the surplus supplies in those boxes and di...
ANNETTE JOHNSON Whenever I say I made a record in the garage, people just assume that I have, like, a Lear jet parke...
DAVE GROHL I don't really like to talk about other people. I think people who have things going on in their...
ABIGAIL BRESLIN The voiceover thing is very selfless. You go in there and they've hired you for your voice, but ...
NEIL PATRICK HARRIS As far as actors who pop up again and again in Japanese dubs, and because they're really good ac...
YURI LOWENTHAL I talk as I sketch, too, in order to keep their minds off what I'm doing so I'll get the mos...
NORMAN ROCKWELL I don't remember ever having writer's block. If I sit in there for four hours, I'll usua...
RANDY NEWMAN You have a lot of companies developing stuff that's just derivative. If 'The Voice' is t...
SHANE SMITH It's different, it's weird to say, 'She's a white rapper or she can't do this be...
IGGY AZALEA I still struggle with my low notes. It's just always been something for me: I'm not a low si...
CASSADEE POPE I'm a huge fan of 'Kung Fu Panda.' I honestly think that Jack Black's voice work in ...
JOHN REQUA I'll get out and do Pilates. I'll get in the ring and do some rounds of kickboxing and grapp...
ADRIAN PETERSON People want something that's going to really separate them - something that will help them keep ...
SCOTT KELBY There's just something wonderful about getting a small group of people together in an isolated l...
DREW GODDARD What has been happening more lately - of course, I also put in my bio, I say I do the voice of Golia...
KEITH DAVID It's a shame because we experienced probably the greatest thing - in art, in pop - we'll eve...
GARY KEMP Wise people talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
PLATO It's not opinion polls that determine the outcome of elections, it's votes in ballot boxes.
NICOLA STURGEON I have permits to be the first person in the world to walk across the Grand Canyon so that's a p...
NIK WALLENDA I think the problem I have with films is that, because there's so much hype around them, they be...
HANS MATHESON The boxes have been a little slow to commit out there.
GORDON MILLER Ever since Woodward and Bernstein, there's sort of been an epidemic of confidential sources in W...
LOWELL BERGMAN There are so many people that say they are actors and they don't spend for 5 minutes a day worki...
IAN ZIERING He's really been working hard. He's been here all morning, helping to unload the truck and carry foo...
DAVID MITCHELL All I've really ever done is write since I was 17, so I don't know anything about anything. ...
LISA GARDNER People think bigger movies are bad, and that's just not true - there's bad big films, and th...
JON FAVREAU I would love to play an unexpected character. Really raw and simple and not a cliche - something rug...
EVA GREEN There's something about girls and unicorns that's deep and meaningful. Something about child...
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KURT VONNEGUT Life is no way to treat an animal.
KURT VONNEGUT A saint is a person who behaves decently in a shockingly indecent society.
KURT VONNEGUT To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.
KURT VONNEGUT In case you haven't noticed, as the result of a shamelessly rigged election in Florida, in which tho...
KURT VONNEGUT I wanted all things
To seem to make some sense,
So we could all be happy, yes,
Instea...
KURT VONNEGUT Here is a lesson in creative writing.

First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transve...
KURT VONNEGUT Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn't...
KURT VONNEGUT I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.
KURT VONNEGUT And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'I...
KURT VONNEGUT Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly;
Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?'
Tiger got t...
KURT VONNEGUT If somebody says 'I love you' to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can an...
KURT VONNEGUT All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
KURT VONNEGUT Live by the foma* that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.

*Harmless untruths
KURT VONNEGUT profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and...
KURT VONNEGUT Sometimes I think that's the trouble with the world: too many people in high places who are stone-co...
KURT VONNEGUT One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the Universe which he or...
KURT VONNEGUT The church, which squatted among the headstones like a wet mother dodo, had been at various times Pr...
KURT VONNEGUT This person has just arrived on this planet, knows nothing about it, has no standards by which to ju...
KURT VONNEGUT My advice to writers just starting out? Don't use semi-colons! They are transvestite hermaphrodites,...
KURT VONNEGUT People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.
KURT VONNEGUT Vietnam was an exercise in mistaken idealism; Iraq in cynical money-making. And there's no optimism ...
KURT VONNEGUT I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the ki...
KURT VONNEGUT This is a beguiling book,
KURT VONNEGUT and I'm whistling as beautifully as I can.
KURT VONNEGUT Here is the solution to the American drug problem suggested a couple years back by the wife of our P...
KURT VONNEGUT The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal.
KURT VONNEGUT The human beings also passed canteens, which guards would fill with water. When food came in, the hu...
KURT VONNEGUT What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as gla...
KURT VONNEGUT Well, I know," she said. "You'll pretend you were men instead of babies, and you'll be played in the...
KURT VONNEGUT I am a very bad scientist. I will do anything to make a human being feel better, even if it's unscie...
KURT VONNEGUT The troops and their ladies had first drunk champagne. There were also remains of sandwiches, and I ...
KURT VONNEGUT Americans... are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It m...
KURT VONNEGUT It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead.
KURT VONNEGUT I asked this heroic pet lover how it felt to have died for a schnauzer named Teddy. Salvador Biagian...
KURT VONNEGUT Swoopers write a story quickly, higgledy-piggledy, crinkum-crankum, any which way. Then they go over...
KURT VONNEGUT The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless...
KURT VONNEGUT Don't worry about your father. He's a perfectly contented, self-sufficient zombie.
KURT VONNEGUT How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
KURT VONNEGUT If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
KURT VONNEGUT Since Alice had never received any religious instruction, and since she had led a blameless life, sh...
KURT VONNEGUT There are no telegraphs on Tralfamadore. But you're right: each clump of symbols is a brief, urgent ...
KURT VONNEGUT Unfortunately, that still leaves plenty of Americans who don't read much or think much -- who will s...
KURT VONNEGUT You asked the impossible of a machine and the machine complied.
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