A Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.

Kurt Vonnegut

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Kurt Vonnegut
American - Writer
November 11, 1922 - April 11, 2007

I am the victim of a fortunate series of accidents.

Kurt Vonnegut

Being a victim doesn't take much. There are built-in excuses for failure. Built-in excuses for being miserable. Built-in excuses for being angry all the time. No reason to trying to be happy; it's not possible. You're a victim. Victim of what? Well, you're a victim of derision. Well, you're a victim of America. You're a victim of America's past, or you're a victim of religion. You're a victim of bigotry, of homophobia, whatever. You're a victim of something. The Democrats got one for you. If you want to be a victim, call 'em up.

Rush Limbaugh

Some critics have suggested that Ronald Reagan succeeded in a series of careers, ultimately as a two-term president of the United States, by a series of fortunate accidents. Such a criticism is not backed by the evidence. It is true, though, that Reagan's approach to work and life was not conventional.

James M Strock

It's ridiculous. My life's been a series of happy accidents.

Lucas Neff

My life has been a series of slightly happy accidents.

Vijay Krishna Acharya

A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.

Orson Welles

History was a series of decisions about what to tell and a series of accidents about what survived after telling. Not truth, but a historian could search for truth, and the search was as worthy as any other human activity.

David Drake

Depression moods lead, almost invariably, to accidents. But, when they occur, our mood changes again, since the accident shows we can draw the world in our wake, and that we still retain some degree of power even when our spirits are low. A series of accidents creates a positively light-hearted state, out of consideration for this strange power.

Jean Baudrillard

There's a theory of accidents that I studied when I was making a film about nuclear weapons: you can never eliminate accidents, because the measures you introduce to prevent accidents actually produce more accidents. That's certainly true of this sport; you're flying over 40 feet of what might look like snow, but it's hard as ice, it's as hard as pavement. You're doing acrobatic spins and tricks, 40 feet above pavement, essentially. There's been more accidents since, and there are going to continue to be more accidents, that's the nature of the sport.

Lucy Walker

Someone once described entrepreneurship to me as a series of happy accidents.

Kevin Systrom

Deadwood was a place created by a series of accidents. A kind of original sin.

David Milch

If you don't have a basis on which to make the choice, then you don't have a style at all. You have a series of accidents.

Philip Glass

My life has been a series of well-orchestrated accidents; I've always suffered from hallucinogenic optimism.

Evan Williams

A series of accidents creates a positively light-hearted state, out of consideration for this strange power.

Jean Baudrillard

Life is an adventure of our own design intersected by fate and a series of lucky and unlucky accidents.

Patti Smith

The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim; he can control, in his work, the self-presentation that in actuality is at the mercy of a thousand accidents.

John Updike

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