Bill Vaughan Quotes
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When I got pregnant with my first child, I gained nearly 5st. I did a bit of pretending: 'I'm just really small, so I just put on a lot of weight when I'm pregnant.' That is true, but I also ate a lot of cake.
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I don't believe in God personally but I have great respect for those people who do and different people have different religious views in this country.
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If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you.
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I just knew that God wasn't there. He was a man on a throne in Heaven, so he was easy to forget.
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I'll dispose of my teeth as I see fit, and after they've gone, I'll get along. I started off living on gruel, and by God, I can always go back to it again.
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Even if we don't believe in church or God, we still believe in things that are bigger than ourselves. We need to believe in those things because if we can't be open to what we don't know, there's no hope for any of us.
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He who builds a masjid in the way of Allah, God will build a house for him in the paradise.
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Attraction is what happens between you. It's not universal. And it's not conventional. And thank God for that.
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I first heard African drum rhythms and chants at the movies. Then, when I had the opportunity to go to Africa and visit the villages, I heard the real, raw, true rhythms and realised the origins of the old Negro spirituals I grew up with in the South.
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It's true: I don't remember what life was like before parenthood.
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If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.
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My mother used to push 'Wuthering Heights' on me as a boy, and I sensed from her breathy description of the story that it would make me laugh. I have no plans to find out if this is true.
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God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.
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Moving to Los Angeles and working in places like Hawaii, you get to experience a true melting pot. It's really nice to be around people who are multiethnic.
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It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character.
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Your entire life only happens in this moment. The present moment is life itself. Yet, people live as if the opposite were true and treat the present moment as a stepping stone to the next moment - a means to an end.
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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
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When you receive God's love and encouragement, it will empower you to do more than you ever thought possible.
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When God saves us through Christ, He not only saves us from the penalty of sin, but also from its dominion.
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I won the John Mackey Award, so I did something right.
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I have tried to draw the human effigy (and all the other subjects dealt with in my paintings) in an immediate and effective way without any reference to the aesthetic.
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It's easy to be a good person when things are going well. We try to find people that will rise up when things are not going well. When we build a team, it's not just how is this person going to be when things are good... when things are rough... then who are you?
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I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God.
