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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Planning bores me. I like to go with the flow. Being whimsical is nice, occasionally. It keeps things fresh; there's no expectation.
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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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Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.
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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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I don't think we should tell them what we're going to do in advance. Let them think. Worry. Wonder. Uncertainty is the most chilling thing of all.
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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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The amount of love I get from India, from Pakistan, from Asia, from Persia, Malaysia - people are just like, 'Brown boy doing it, brown boy doing it!'
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Puritanical attempts to cure society by taking toys away from children are hypocritical and futile.
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I'm not promoting anything totally unhealthy because I'm not unhealthy. But I am promoting an ideal that's not attainable, and for that I have to feel guilty. I have to assume some blame for that.
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Working in a salon, you look at trends all day long. You're looking at color all the time, what new products are coming out. You're a part of the fashion industry, especially if you're working in a higher-end salon.
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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.
