Bill Vaughan Quotes

There is a huge antipathy in England between the north and the south, the working class and the owning class.

Bill Vaughan

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• England
• Huge
• South
• Antipathy

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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.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
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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.

  

  Langhorne Slim
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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.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • Time
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  • Television

• We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Circumstances
  • Rule
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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.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • American
  • Distinctions
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• First drafts are never any good - at least, mine aren't.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Good
  • Never
  • First

• Fair treatment of human beings and animals in many different realms strikes a chord with me.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Different
  • Me
  • Animals

• 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.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • Family
  • Mother
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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.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Great
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  • Moving

• 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.

  

  Larry Kramer
  • People
  • Hate
  • Gay

• 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.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • People
  • Want
  • View

• 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.

  

  Barney Frank
  • People
  • Attention
  • Right

• 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.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
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• If you want to invest in us, we believe customer number one, employee number two, shareholder number three. If they don't want to buy that, that's fine. If they regret, they can sell us.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Believe
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• I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture.

  

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  • Long
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• I think that every young person is a little mentally ill, you know? If we're not totally shutting down, we're all a little bit mentally ill in our twenties and maybe into our early thirties.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Think
  • Know
  • Down

• I like to listed to the adventurous guys - the Coltranes, Miles Davis, the guys who just let it loose.

  

  Herb Alpert
  • Guy
  • Adventurous
  • Coltrane

• True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, Which is as thin of substance as the air, And more inconstant than the wind, who woos Even now the frozen bosom of the north, And, being anger'd, puffs away from thence, Turning his side to the dew-dropping south.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Children
  • Dream
  • Brain

• There is a huge antipathy in England between the north and the south, the working class and the owning class.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Class
  • England
  • Huge