Bill Vaughan Quotes
There is a huge antipathy in England between the north and the south, the working class and the owning class.
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I have self-actualized. Pardon me whilst I adjust my glowing halo.
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I don't like the idea of spirituality done the way it's done. The only way I could understand it was through creativity, not by going to an Ashram, or finding a guru or joining a temple. I made work out of it.
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The moral of a fable is eternal. The moral of a story is temporary to a story.
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I feel quite connected to the past, and my memory. Everything that I've ever done I can still relate to, and feel connected to it in a way. There's no part of my life that I look at and go, 'I don't recognize that person at all.'
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I tried to take seriously the idea that if you tortured language you might arrive at some new truth. Later it became clear to me that I was retreading ground by fighting the literary battles of the 1950s and 1960s, and that I was actually a bit bored by some of the books I professed to love.
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The entertainment business is not the be-all and end-all for me.
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I love a lot of music that's considered folk music, but I also love a lot of music that's considered punk or considered rap. I don't mind being called a folk singer. But it seems a bit limiting. I want to be able to write whatever kind of song I want.
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We don't have access to a national forum that we had in those days, through the news magazines which were the television news of the time. It's very disturbing to me that we've sort of been pushed to the corners.
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We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.
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The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I am not a Virginian but an American.
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First drafts are never any good - at least, mine aren't.
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Fair treatment of human beings and animals in many different realms strikes a chord with me.
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I trained in medicine in India, and after that, I chose psychiatry as my specialty, much to the dismay of my mother and all my family members who kind of thought neurosurgery would be a more respectable option for their brilliant son.
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You can not only do great things for an urban core by moving your employee base there, you're also going to be a better business.
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Too many people hate the people that AIDS most affects: gay people and people of color. I do not mean dislike, or feel uncomfortable with. I mean hate. Downright hate. Down and dirty hate.
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I've sat down and written with a more or less supportable or insupportable idea or thing to say, and it ends. When it's not 200 pages, people want to call it a story. I guess they're entitled to do that. In my view, if it were a supportable idea, it would have gone 200 pages, and it didn't.
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But on those occasions when I do strongly disagree with the Democrats and I don't say anything, I think I forfeit my right to have people pay attention to me when I say the things that I don't like about what Republicans are saying.
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I know what it's like to have a family and not have insurance and really need it. As a comic, insurance was one of those sacrifices I made early on until I could afford it.
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It was a June day when I began my career as a national journalist. I stepped into the Detroit Bureau of the 'Wall Street Journal' and started on what would be a long, varied, rewarding career. I was 23 years old, and the year was 1970.
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There is this notion that the lives of the comfortable-off middle class don't merit being treated seriously and with compassion.
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I think there should be holy war against yoga classes.
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I don't think I'm particularly sexual, no more than anyone else, though I am very creative.
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The prophesying business is like writing fugues; it is fatal to every one save the man of absolute genius.
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There is a huge antipathy in England between the north and the south, the working class and the owning class.
