Breakfast Of Champions Quotes

• Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

  Ken Blanchard

  Business, Learning, Science

  Twitter post from Jan 07, 2015

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• Our awareness is all that is alive and maybe sacred in any of us. Everything else about us is dead machinery.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Writing, Alive, Sacred

  "Breakfast of Champions". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, 1973.

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• So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then they thought that, too.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Thinking, People, Survival

  Kurt Vonnegut (1973). “Breakfast of champions: or, Goodbye blue Monday!”, Dell

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• Seems like the only kind of job an American can get these days is committing suicide in some way.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Suicide, Jobs, Way

  Kurt Vonnegut (1999). “Breakfast of Champions: Or, Goodbye Blue Monday!”, CNIB, 197

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• There is no order in the world around us, we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Order, World, Requirements

  Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.155, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• People took such awful chances with chemicals and their bodies because they wanted the quality of their lives to improve. They lived in ugly places where there were only ugly things to do. They didn't own doodley-squat, so they couldn't improve their surroundings. so they did their best to make their insides beautiful instead.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Beautiful, Ugly Things, People

  Kurt Vonnegut (1973). “Breakfast of champions: or, Goodbye blue Monday!”, Dell

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• To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Art, Practice, Soul

  "Finding Soul in LA: Five Creative Adventures in the City" by Roxie Sarhangi, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 18, 2014.

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• All the people of all the nations which had fought in the First World War were silent during the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour of Armistice Day, which was the eleventh day of the eleventh month. It was during that minute in nineteen hundred and eighteen, that millions upon millions of human beings stopped butchering one another. I have talked to old men who were on battlefields during that minute. They have told me in one way or another that the sudden silence was the Voice of God. So we still have among us some men who can remember when God spoke clearly to mankind.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  War, Men, Voice

  "Breakfast Of Champions". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, 1973.

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• The Breakfast of Champions isn't cereal, it's the competition!

  David Lee Roth

  Cereal, Competition, Champion

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• Kilgore Trout once wrote a short story which was a dialogue between two pieces of yeast. They were discussing the possible purposes of life as they ate sugar and suffocated in their own excrement. Because of their limited intelligence, they never came close to guessing that they were making champagne.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Two, Trout, Purpose

  Kurt Vonnegut (1999). “Breakfast of Champions: Or, Goodbye Blue Monday!”, CNIB, 197

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• Symbols can be so beautiful, sometimes.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Beautiful, Sometimes, Symbols

  Kurt Vonnegut (1973). “Breakfast of champions: or, Goodbye blue Monday!”, Dell

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• The best blended Scotch in the history of the world - which was also the favourite drink of the Iraqi Baath Party, as it still is of the Palestinian Authority and the Libyan dictatorship and large branches of the Saudi Arabian royal family - is Johnnie Walker Black. Breakfast of champions, accept no substitute.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Party, Scotch, Champion

  "Background Briefing" with Kirsten Garrett, www.abc.net.au. August 16, 2009.

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• Why were so many Americans treated by their government as though their lives were as disposable as facial tissues? Because that was the way authors customarily treated bit-part players in their made-up tales.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Memorable, Player, Government

  Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.135, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Ideas on earth were badges of friendship or enimity. Their content did not matter. Friends agreed with friends, in order to express friendliness. Enemies disagreed with enemies, in order to express enimity.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Order, Ideas, Enemy

  Kurt Vonnegut (1999). “Breakfast of Champions: Or, Goodbye Blue Monday!”, CNIB, 197

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• What is the purpose of life?...To be the eyes and ears and conscience of the Creator of the Universe, you fool!

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Eye, Purpose, Ears

  Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.141, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The arts are not a way to make a living.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Art, Way, Bearable

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “A Man Without a Country”, p.24, Seven Stories Press

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• You are pooped and demoralised,” read Dwayne. “Why wouldn’t you be? Of course it is exhausting, having to reason all the time in a universe which wasn’t meant to be reasonable.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Reason, Courses, Exhausting

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• Roses are red, And ready for plucking, You're sixteen, And ready for high school.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  School, Rose, Sixteen

  Kurt Vonnegut (1999). “Breakfast of Champions: Or, Goodbye Blue Monday!”, CNIB, 197

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• I couldn't help wondering if that was what God put me on Earth for--to find out how much a man could take without breaking.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Men, Earth, Helping

  Kurt Vonnegut (1999). “Breakfast of Champions: Or, Goodbye Blue Monday!”, CNIB, 197

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• I can have oodles of charm when I want to.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Want, Charm, I Can

  Kurt Vonnegut (1973). “Breakfast of champions: or, Goodbye blue Monday!”, Dell

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• We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Health, Compassion, Ideas

  FaceBook post by Kurt Vonnegut from Jan 05, 2015

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• Earthlings went on being friendly, when they should have been thinking instead.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Life, Thinking, Should Have

  Kurt Vonnegut (1973). “Breakfast of champions: or, Goodbye blue Monday!”, Dell

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• Trout was petrified there on Forty-second Street. It had given him a life not worth living, but I had also given him an iron will to live. This was a common combination on the planet Earth.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Iron Will, Trout, Earth

  Kurt Vonnegut (1999). “Breakfast of Champions: Or, Goodbye Blue Monday!”, CNIB, 197

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• The proper ending for any story about people it seems to me, since life is now a polymer in which the Earth is wrapped so tightly, should be the same abbreviation, which I now write large because I feel like it, which is this one: ETC.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Writing, People, Stories

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• New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  New Beginnings, Earth, Commodity

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.41, Dial Press

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