Bill Vaughan Quotes
What is my proudest accomplishment? I went through some pretty difficult times, and I kept my sanity.
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Everyone thinks I land in a chopper on top of my building and I have the most cushy existence. Could you understand that I might have the most messed up life myself?
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I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale.
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I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.
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I do love being on television and in peoples' homes. I'm not an actor, so there is a connection that's real.
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I think of Twitter as the place where I go to have a great conversation when I can't have one locally, which seems to be all the time, and the more time that I spend on Twitter, the more I sort of curate this incredible group of very intelligent people that I just get to know purely through the quality of their thoughts.
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Women must not shout back when their husbands come home and shout at them for any reason.
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Any artist who aligns themselves with a politician is making a category error because what politicians do is not on a human scale, it is on a geopolitical scale.
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Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around, and it felt like there were 25 extra pounds of gravity on my shoulders. It's like you're mute or something.
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Travel is impossible, but daydreaming about travel is easy.
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I don't use the voice of Bart when I'm making love to my husband, but Marge's voice turns him on a little.
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This is something caregivers have to understand: You have to ask for help. You have to realize that you deserve to ask for help. Because you need to keep on working on your own life.
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A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect.
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If we were handling a bomb which could go off at any minute as a result of our actions, we would mind ourselves and be delicate. Our words have the same power, yet we wield them around as though they were powerless and insignificant.
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I meet everybody. If somebody invites me to their house and they got a drum set close, I'm going to play, man. Let's jam. I don't care. Get in where you fit in and enjoy the experience.
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Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.
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In fact, I have the privilege of traveling around our country and meeting people all over the country who are making a huge difference in the lives of their neighbors and themselves. That's what I'm really fortunate to be able to do.
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Going out for a meal, especially for young urbanites, is less about socialising over enjoyable food than about enjoying food as a way to socialise.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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I like to call it a 'sacred fire' when you have it inside you: the will to win every game.
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Probably the worst time in a person's life is when they have to kill a family member because they are the devil. But otherwise it's been a pretty good day.
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Poe was plagued and haunted most of all by something pretty banal: poverty. Probably the most eccentric decision in life was to become a writer in an age when making a living at it was nearly impossible.
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My best asset is my brain. Without my brain, I don't think the rest of me would be too hot.
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It's one thing to earnestly try but fail to bring the two sides together. Though Democrats will deny it, that was the case with George W. Bush.
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What is my proudest accomplishment? I went through some pretty difficult times, and I kept my sanity.
