Bill Vaughan Quotes
Journalism, like history, has no therapeutic value; it is better able to diagnose than to cure, and it provides society with a primitive means of psychoanalysis that allows the patient to judge the distance between fantasy and reality.
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I favor pocket-sized hard drives that travel between home and office, syncing with computers on both ends.
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It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.
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Detroit is saying that the hydrogen vehicle is the vehicle of the future. But it's 15 years from now.
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If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.
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In our league, it comes right down to the end.
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I'm an old-fashioned girl, and I didn't believe in living with people, so I guess I married for the wrong reasons at times.
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There's no way you can predict what is going to happen in six months or two years in most businesses, and certainly not for businesses that are growing at the rate that we have grown.
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We always saw ourselves in careers as entrepreneurs or angels.
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I was good at math and science, and I got lots of degrees in lots of things, but in a parallel universe, I probably became a chef.
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I ate better in Liberia than I did in Ohio.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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Dance connects us to the musicality of life and to one another. No one should be denied such basic pleasures.
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I watch a lot of football.
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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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I'm like a packrat with work. I hoard my jobs.
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I didn't like children. I didn't think of myself as a child. I didn't like any of the things other children were interested in.
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When leaders throughout an organization take an active, genuine interest in the people they manage, when they invest real time to understand employees at a fundamental level, they create a climate for greater morale, loyalty, and, yes, growth.
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I really saw myself as the quintessential Cinderella. I think that's when I really thought about how I wanted to do something else and get away from all that.
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The challenge for a writer looking at history is to figure out what is history and what is myth. After all, what you are looking at is an interpretation of history, and so at some level, it becomes an interpretation of an interpretation.
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English has always had a special fondness for other European languages, a neighborly soft spot - perhaps because Britain has been invaded by speakers of those languages from the onset of its recorded history.
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What don't I want to learn? I have how-to books, history, nature. Ain't nobody here saying, 'You'd better learn this.' But I still think I've got a head on my shoulders, and it pleases me.
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Fear is danger to your body, but disgust is danger to your soul.
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The winners shouldn't necessarily win, and the losers shouldn't necessarily lose.
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Journalism, like history, has no therapeutic value; it is better able to diagnose than to cure, and it provides society with a primitive means of psychoanalysis that allows the patient to judge the distance between fantasy and reality.
