Bill Vaughan Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Comedy's really subjective, you know; that's why it's so hard.
-
My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'
-
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?
-
Furniture is meant to be used and enjoyed.
-
It was in 1969, and I thought, wow, you know, I really didn't want to do a TV series. You know, I had my own act, and I was performing in Vegas and doing all of these exciting things.
-
Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
-
The current approach that psychiatry takes almost ignores social worlds in which mental health problems arise and tries to become highly biomedical like other branches of medicine such as cardiology or oncology. But psychiatry has to be far more embedded in people's personal and social worlds.
-
I don't look at myself as suffering.
-
Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
-
Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list.
-
The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.
-
The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing.
-
I'm guilty of eating Magnum bars before I go to sleep at night.
-
I've never had to fend for a child's life, which sounds very terrifying.
-
On September 11 last year international terrorism entered a new dimension.
-
If your child is born with a port-wine stain, they should be seen immediately by a pediatric dermatologist. Your pediatrician does not understand these birthmarks as well as a specialist.
-
I'm the kind of guy who always pushes really hard.
-
By 1865, all Southern women - the happily and regrettably single, the perpetually engaged, the wives and widows - had tired of the war. The Confederacy was shrinking, and the morale of its remaining men shrinking with it.
-
There comes a time when money doesn't matter.
-
About once every four days, someone comes up to me and is like, 'Hey, I know you from somewhere.'
-
When he let Kennedy use his column to send signals to Nikita Khrushchev, or lent his skill to Vandenberg to reinforce the anti-Soviet consensus in American diplomacy, he wasn't acting as a reporter but as a patriot. This urge may be a dereliction of duty in the journalist, but it is a sign of decency in the man. That the two impulses in journalism should so often be at odds — duty versus decency — tells us more about the trade than most of us care to know.
-
Once the light of our awareness is cast on any darkness, then it cannot hide and it cannot remain. Such is the law of consciousness.
-
Civil religion is the attempt to empower religion, not for the good of religion, but for the creation of the citizen.
-
The ideal Christmas gift is money, but the trouble is you can't charge it.
