Bill Vaughan Quotes
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I'm not a Republican.
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I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long time. It's sociology as well as music, which is in keeping with the tradition of black music in America.
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I have an iPod, but I put my music in it from my CDs, and then I have that CD in my library.
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Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.
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I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
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It is not easy to get parts in mainstream films for most people of color. Hollywood and British writers are not writing parts for us, or the directors are not interested in casting us in parts that are color-blind.
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I do big films just to experience personal satisfaction.
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I auditioned for 'The Office,' and I don't know if it was a role I could do, but I liked the character. You do one take, and you're reading with a person who's just sitting in a chair and not really... you're not playing off someone, which is what I like to do. I like to play around and find the moment.
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The biggest misconception about me is the bad-boy image that everyone stuck me into due to my tattoos, drug days and the constant changes I make with my hair color.
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To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.
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I have suffered as much as Martin Luther King. Only I didn't get the bullet. And I would have taken the bullet if I could have.
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I was always one of those fortunate people who never wanted to be anything other than a singer and an actor. Most people know me as a singer, but I am also an actor.
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You can be arrested and not charged. You can be arrested and have no right to counsel.
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At the age of seventeen, I left school. I went to university, and I wrote my first attempts at poetry in a room in a flat at the edge of the city.
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Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty.
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You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.
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Women seem not to understand, or underestimate, the profound power they have over their husbands.
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I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood and they are very sceptical about European record labels' understanding of digital technology.
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When their lips met, and their tongues touched, it was like they were kissing in a hundred different places, and her senses were flooded with new sensations and old memoires. He kissed her, and their souls melted into each other in a melody older than time.
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I think a tragedy is something where the natural order of things is completely interrupted and doesn't right itself.
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Just as you must come through a woman's womb to attain physical birth, so must you come through Wisdom to achieve mental birth. And like childbirth, Wisdom often comes with pain.
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You will regret many things in life but you will never regret being too kind or too fair.
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If one truly loves nature one finds beauty everywhere.
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We have got to keep the momentum going in order to achieve all of our objectives.
