Bill Vaughan Quotes
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We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.
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When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.
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I've never been good at meditation, but surfing is the closest I've ever come to that inner something.
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Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.
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Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.
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Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.
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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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I never thought of having cancer as something that was unfair. I just braced myself and tried to get through it.
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How do you create chemistry? If only I knew that! Some people say it's a natural thing that you have with someone, and maybe it is to do with that, but I think you can work on it.
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The E.U. can deliver on its citizens' needs and make its partnerships work only if we all act together - E.U. institutions and national governments, at all levels, united.
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We must have the time to create strict rules so that property is not sold by Communist managers for a low price. They often get payments under the table to sell to the first bidder. This does not build public support for a market economy.
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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We got to know the competition very well. In the '50s popcorn made a big growth in sales. Our main push was to produce the best quality and sell in quality retail outlets.
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I take a lot of pictures.
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There's always a mismatch between small entrepreneurial outfits and large companies, which often don't have the same outlook.
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When you love something, it doesn't feel like work.
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The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.
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A weaver who has to direct and to interweave a great many little threads has no time to philosophize about it, but rather he is so absorbed in his work that he doesn't think but acts, and he feels how things must go more than he can explain it.
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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.
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There are definitely some songs you sing and you just know there's something about it - there's kind of a touch on it that's different. But there are no rules to that. Every time, it's a surprise and it's humbling to hear that people are singing the songs in different places and different parts of the world. We're always amazed by that.
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In order to understand what they need to understand, in order to write what they write, they have to be free. And yet, they aren't ever free. They are not free because they are not free of the constrictions their art puts on them.
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The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them.
