Bill Vaughan Quotes

Worship your heroes from afar; contact withers them.

Bill Vaughan

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• My best advice to anybody who has a child with a disability is to really find the tools for that person to thrive and find what their true passions are, because the rest will follow.

  

  Zach Anner
  • True
  • Best
  • Rest

• There's a tendency among some male writers to make the women in their stories weak and needing of rescue so that their hero looks like a manly man.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Women
  • Man
  • Hero

• I'm typically single. I'm the girl who - I call it girl-next-door-itis - the hot guy is friends with and gets all his relationship advice from but never considers dating.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Friends
  • Guy
  • Girl

• I've heard people tell me there's never been a gay character like Agron on TV before, and some fans have even thanked me because they now feel like they have a gay action hero, and it's very endearing to hear that kind of stuff. But I just played him the way he was and tried to do right by the character.

  

  Dan Feuerriegel
  • People
  • Character
  • Action

• My hero is Roger Federer.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Hero
  • Roger
  • Federer

• I don't have a mentor in the strict definition. I take as much advice and inspiration as I can from the people I am close to.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • People
  • Inspiration
  • Advice

• The idea of 'advice,' in terms of telling people advice or asking people for advice, has become not comprehensible to me, to a certain degree, due to feeling, like, for something to be accurately defined as 'good' or 'bad,' I would want to know the context, goal, perspective for it.

  

  Tao Lin
  • People
  • Goal
  • Advice

• I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • History
  • Wonder
  • Military

• Every little girl looks up to her mom so much - that's your first hero.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Mom

• After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down.

  

  Barbara Cartland
  • Woman
  • Advice
  • Losing

• It's better to spend a lot on a getup you love than a fraction of that on something, or even five of those somethings, that you'll never bother to take out of the shopping bag. By the way, this advice also applies to discount love interests. And half-price sushi.

  

  Patricia Marx
  • Way
  • Advice
  • Shopping

• The term 'hero' irritates me greatly.

  

  Irena Sendler
  • Me
  • Hero
  • Term

• Leading by example is the most powerful advice you can give to anybody.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Powerful
  • Advice
  • Example

• Richard Pryor was my hero. Richard Pryor was keeping it 100.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Hero
  • Keeping
  • Richard

• If we are going to use places of worship as polling places, we should not discriminate.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Going
  • Worship
  • Places

• I don't take investment advice from wealth managers. I have grown several businesses from scratch and amassed many millions from my publishing empire - why would I take advice from someone who has never experienced that?

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Why
  • Advice
  • Wealth

• My first hero, as a teenager, was James Connolly. I remember discovering that he was a feminist, and that was an eye-opener, coming from a man of such poverty.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Remember
  • Man
  • Poverty

• Best advice that I ever got is to do whatever it takes to make myself happy, so that I'll be able to make others happy. If I'm not happy, I can't make other people happy.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • People
  • Happy
  • Myself

• My career was quite unusual, so my main advice to someone interested in a career similar to my own is to remain open to change and new opportunities. I like to tell students that the jobs I took after my Ph.D. were not in existence only a few years before.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • Career
  • Change
  • Advice

• Somebody's willingness to let me photograph them, and willingness to tell me a story, has nothing to do with the words I say. It all has to do with the energy I'm giving off, which hopefully is very genuine, very interested energy. It's just two people having a conversation in the street. I think that's where genuine content comes from.

  

  Brandon Stanton
  • People
  • Words
  • Giving

• You learn your lessons from the mistakes you make, not the things you achieve.

  

  Katherine Jenkins

• I try to see the good in everybody, and I don't care who people are as long as they're themselves, whatever that is.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • People
  • Long
  • Trying

• How could you justify giving Holland twice the amount of money that you gave Belgium? Well, finally, I put it up to them. They said that they couldn't do it; it would destroy them. I said they had to do it. And I finally got support from Hoffman on it.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • Up
  • Money
  • Giving

• Worship your heroes from afar; contact withers them.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Advice
  • Hero
  • Worship