Bill Vaughan Quotes
The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions.
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I have a lot of breast cancer history on my mother's side of the family.
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History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
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I'm resigned to the fact that the corseted history of America is not as exciting as that of Britain.
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My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969.
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Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
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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.
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Music history has flowed under the bridges for many years.
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I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that.
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The same way one tells a recipe, one tells a family history. Each one of us has our past locked inside.
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White supremacy is a very, very popular and trenchant belief in this country's history and heritage.
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The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence; he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented in our history; and he failed to build a true international coalition.
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If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
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Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.
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In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.
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Over the course of history, the people who are not scared go into the woods and are mauled by a bear, are not going to survive.
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We are in the midst of a momentous catastrophe of world history, of a transformation of all aspects of life and of the entire inner human being This is perhaps fortunate for the artistic person, if he is strong enough to bear the consequences, because what we need is the courage to have inner experience.
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History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
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During the 1990s, San Francisco lived through one of the most intense economic booms of its history.
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As a general rule, most recent university graduates know far more about U.S. economic history and 'The Lord of the Flies' than about how the modern workplace functions and how to succeed in it. Yet come senior year of college, it couldn't be more important or more timely to learn the basics of getting a job.
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If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious.
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I have not slept. Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream: The Genius and the mortal instruments Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
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The power of music and what it does when its super, super important with something like that the day after a life changing event. I really felt lucky and honored to be a part of that homage to see that we were literally injecting medicine into these people with a message like that.
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The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions.
