Bill Vaughan Quotes
All the problems of the world - child labor, corruption - are symptoms of a spiritual disease: lack of compassion.
Quotes to Explore
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Maybe the real secret to America's greatness is that we hate one another.
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If large numbers of people believe they have no shot at a better life in the future, they will work less hard and generate fewer new ideas and businesses. The economy, as a whole, will be poorer.
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Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I've learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.
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Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.
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My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.
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All politicians should have 3 hats - one to throw into the ring, one to talk through, and one to pull rabbits out of if elected.
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Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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It is so important for girls and boys to have a female, strong superhero to look up to.
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If the American government can't stand behind the dollar, the world's benchmark currency, then the global financial system will very likely enter a new era in which there is much less trade and much less economic growth. It would be, by most accounts, the largest self-imposed financial disaster in history.
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Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn't write them as well; I wouldn't do as good a job.
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It is fantastic to be found in a foreign country.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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The most influential factor in selling a home is always price. Don't build 'wiggle room' into the asking price. There's a price war out there and you have to win it from the get-go.
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I'm just going to have fun. Maybe that will be the most important thing to do.
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Publishing is not my world.
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I never do anything to strictly satisfy a fickle, ever-changing commercial world. I do the music I like to play. It's the only way I feel comfortable existing in the industry.
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Whereupon, at the tender age of thirteen, I set upon the path of playing nothing but hookers.
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I would love to kiss you. The price of kissing is your life.
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I'm about challenging people. Like, properly challenging them and their assumptions.
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All the problems of the world - child labor, corruption - are symptoms of a spiritual disease: lack of compassion.
