Bill Vaughan Quotes

I return with feelings of misgiving from my third war-I was the first American commander to put his signature to a paper ending a war when we did not win it.

Bill Vaughan

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• During the Cold War, we were interested because we were scared that Russia and the United States were going to go to war. We were scared that Russia was going to take over the world. Every country became a battleground.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • World
  • Country
  • War

• Eating local is a relatively new concept in American dining; for the Italians, it's a way of life.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Life
  • American
  • Eating

• There is no 20-year period in American history when stocks lost money.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Money
  • American
  • History

• In American films, Russians are often portrayed like cartoon villains without clear motivations.

  

  Yuliya Snigir
  • American
  • Often
  • Cartoon

• The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • American
  • Freedom
  • Giving

• Emotions come first, and in the most direct sense: you first have an emotion and then have a feeling. But also first in the history of the human race, for the ability to have emotions long preceded the ability to have feelings.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Long
  • History
  • Feeling

• Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • American
  • Funny
  • Nobody

• African-Americans are not a monolithic group. So, we tend to talk about the black community, the black culture, the African-American television viewing audience, but there are just as many facets of us as there are other cultures.

  

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner
  • American
  • Black
  • Culture

• For believers, both privilege and privation are a trial, and both demand responses: one demands service, and the other demands patience. The greatest privilege is to live well in flourishing lands; the greatest privation is to live in the midst of war, especially civil war.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Live
  • War
  • Service

• 'But,' say the puling, pusillanimous cowards, 'we shall be subject to a long and bloody war if we declare independence.' On the contrary, I affirm it the only step that can bring the contest to a speedy and happy issue.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Long
  • War
  • Happy

• It's real nice and exciting for me to break the records, but it's more exciting for me to be on a winning team.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Me
  • Nice
  • Winning

• The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • People
  • May
  • American

• Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
  • Work
  • American
  • Achieve

• Our World War II generation met the challenges of their time.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Time
  • World
  • War

• I have to admit that I only read 'War and Peace' when I was 40. But I knew the basics before then.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • War
  • Peace
  • Admit

• American fiction is good. It would be nice if somebody read it.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Good
  • American
  • Nice

• Also, there are now new laws in Brazil which create incentives for Argentine and Latin American films to be premiered and distributed in Brazil and vice versa.

  

  Walter Salles
  • American
  • New
  • Now

• I have either run private equity funded companies or been a partner in a private equity fund since 1982. I've had a front row view of the vital role private equity continues to play in building and keeping American businesses competitive in the global economy.

  

  N. Robert Hammer
  • American
  • Economy
  • Building

• Just like American families, government agencies need to start doing more with less, and the Internal Revenue Service is no exception.

  

  Charles Boustany
  • American
  • Service

• The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting.

  

  Edward Hopper
  • Art
  • Painting

• When I bagged 'Arundathi,' I don't think I knew how to act. It was because of director Shyamprasad Reddy that I delivered that performance.

  

  Anushka Shetty

• For a long time, I refused to wear jeans. I liked high-waisted pants, but jeans made me feel like I wasn't being unique. Even now, I won't wear the skinny-jeans style, because most people wear those - they have to be baggier, boyfriend-looking, or sort of like a mom jean. I'm real funny that way.

  

  Elle Fanning
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I return with feelings of misgiving from my third war-I was the first American commander to put his signature to a paper ending a war when we did not win it.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • American
  • War
  • Winning