Bill Vaughan Quotes
It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.
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My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'
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Our focus is on helping people develop the skills to find and keep a job. Instead of focusing on a war against poverty, we will focus on fighting for the poor among us by offering them hope and opportunity.
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All I suggest is to make K-12 like higher education. Higher education in the United States is the best in the world because these institutions compete with each other for your tuition dollar. Let's just bring competition to public education.
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I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
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I went to this little performing arts school in downtown Phoenix. You had to dance or act, and everyone sang in choir. I started out playing the saxophone, but I always wanted to be in an orchestra. That was a dream as a kid, and there aren't a lot of saxophones in an orchestra.
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Every actor has their own process. For me, I really need to stay in the pocket. So, if I'm on set and I'm in character, I'm not thinking like a producer. If I'm on set and I'm not in character, wardrobe and make-up, and I'm just coming on set for the moments that I'm not shooting, then I'm able to be the producer.
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No matter what his crimes were, Alton Sterling did not deserve to be executed for them. Look, guys, the punishment for resisting arrest shouldn't be death. The punishment for selling bootleg CDs shouldn't be death. The punishment for having a gun in an open-carry state shouldn't be death. The punishment for being a black man shouldn't be death.
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This country is going to implode, or put another way, it's going to get crushed under the weight of poverty. You can't have one percent of the people who own and control more wealth than the other 90 percent of the population.
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Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that interests me.
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I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth.
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I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.
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Values are more important than money.
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For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.
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There's no way you can win when you're the president; you've got to be the scapegoat for America's issues.
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I have my life on a track that I want it on, and I don't want to get off.
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You know what it's like: you don't want to read your old books again. All you can see are the flaws, what you would do differently.
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The Sherman Act is similar in the economics sphere to the Bill of Rights in the personal sphere.
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You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough.
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Public schools helped create the idea of America and inculcate Americans with a few rudiments of knowledge. To judge by that very American item, the Internet, a few rudiments is all anyone cares to have.
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I think any writer is a fool if he doesn't do it for money. There needs to be some kind of incentive in addition to the project. It all goes together. It's fun to sit there and think of characters and get them into action, then be paid for it. I can't believe it when writers tell me 'I don't want to show my work to anybody'.
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You always hear actors say, 'Theater is my first love,' and it is. It's a time when you really get to do what you do, and there's not a lot of waiting around and interruption and not a lot of money involved - sometimes money really clouds the waters of creativity.
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It would be a very nice way to commute, to be able to bike through the upper part of the George Washington Parkway.
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I mean, I think about it, but I don't design my record to get a certain public response.
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It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.
