Bill Vaughan Quotes
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I've never been all that interested or aware of what people are thinking about me or saying about me. I think that has kept me safest and sanest.
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Now Heaven and Earth are older than the temples, and older than the Scriptures.
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There was a time I was no longer going to be black. I was going to be an 'intellectual.' When I was first looking around for colleges, thinking of colleges I couldn't afford to go to, I was thinking of being a philosopher. I began to understand then that much of my feelings about race were negative.
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Without accepting the other person's thinking, you cannot further your own interest. You need the other's help to get results.
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The kingdom of heaven is like electricity. You don't see it. It is within you.
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The Self is self-luminous without darkness and light, and is the reality which is self-manifest. Therefore, one should not think of it as this or as that. The very thought of thinking will end in bondage.
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I'm not sitting around thinking of ideas for TV shows.
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As I prepare for my second term as Secretary-General, I am thinking hard about how we can meet the expectations of the millions of people who see the U.N.'s blue flag as a banner of hope. We have to continue our life-saving work in peacekeeping, human rights, development and humanitarian relief.
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One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.
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I pray to God I get inside a girl's head one day and see what in the WORLD they are thinking.
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Once you're a chess player, you spend a lot of time thinking about the game and you can't get it completely out of your head.
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We've gone too far in thinking we can re-create an American democratic paradise in the Middle East.
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I have been thinking a lot about what we see in villains, how we relate to villains, and what it is about certain villains that we actually empathize with. Like Macbeth. We're not supposed to like a guy who kills the king and takes over, but there's something about him we're really fascinated by.
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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
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At the prom, you are more about boys thinking you're cute. On the red carpet, you have to please everyone because there are a lot more people looking at those pictures.
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I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.
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I'm not thinking about the next record really yet. I kind of want to do a bunch of stuff with Jonathan Zawada, the guy who did the album art. I'd like to do some crazy art installations and design some weird synthesizers and work with other people and make some fun stuff for a bit. Maybe tap into virtual reality stuff or maybe write another record.
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If the history of resistance to Darwinian thinking is a good measure, we can expect that long into the future, long after every triumph of human thought has been matched or surpassed by 'mere machines,' there will still be thinkers who insist that the human mind works in mysterious ways that no science can comprehend.
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Love can be angry... with a kind of anger in which there is no gall, like the dove's and not the ravens.
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There are a thousand flowers blossoming in spring, The magical light of the full moon in autumn; There is a breeze in summer, And snow in winter; And if vanities don't hang in my mind, I shall rejoice at any time and place.
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My whole life has been nothing more than a continuous struggle against Reaction and the death of art.
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It is foolish to think that we will enter heaven without entering into ourselves.
