Bill Vaughan Quotes

We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.

Bill Vaughan

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• The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code led to a development of which the South was really ashamed and which it often denied, and yet perfectly evident: the raising of slaves in the Border slave states for systematic sale on the commercialized cotton plantations.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Up
  • Women
  • Home

• In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Society
  • Respect
  • Talent

• The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Little
  • Matters
  • Field

• But I used to have a bit of a gambling problem. And that would have been the answer to my prayers. It got worse when I started playing this character, too.

  

  Fisher Stevens
  • Character
  • Problem
  • Gambling

• I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Work
  • Music
  • Girl

• Just because a rapper is white, I don't feel the need to attack them.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Feel
  • White
  • Just Because

• The beauty about living in Atlanta is that there aren't too many paparazzi here; you can just relax. And that really works for me and my children.

  

  Usher
  • Children
  • Beauty
  • Relax

• Schizophrenia beats dining alone.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Alone
  • Schizophrenia
  • Dining

• At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Look
  • Hide
  • Eighteen

• IBM, Microsoft, the profit they made was larger than the top four banks in China put together... But where did the money go?

  

  Jack Ma
  • Money
  • Together
  • Profit

• Obviously Hall & Oates wasn't overlooked by the masses in terms of the record sales.

  

  Inara George
  • Sales
  • Masses
  • Overlooked

• Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Children
  • Happy
  • Be Happy

• Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Up
  • Art
  • You

• All schools should teach children basic cooking skills. Every school should be able to buy sustainable, good quality food wherever possible from local sources. Every school should include food-growing in the curriculum. For some, that will mean twinning with willing farms. For others, it will mean literally building their own small farms.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Good
  • Children
  • School

• We are on pace this year to have a trade deficit that is larger than $800 billion. We have never faced that before, but we continue to put forward trade agreements like these that leave us naked to competition that is neither free nor fair.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Free
  • Competition
  • Forward

• Hypocrisy is a detriment to progress. There's always a hidden agenda.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Always
  • Progress
  • Hypocrisy

• Men! The only animal in the world to fear.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • World
  • Men
  • Fear

• Slowly but surely, we have much better female roles to play and to choose from.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Play
  • Better
  • Choose

• When I am working, I have two shows on Saturday, and when I wake up, and it's a lovely day, I just cry. I'm joking: I love my job.

  

  Elena Roger
  • Up
  • Job
  • Saturday

• Friends, genuine friends, have much more to do with whether we have a warm heart, not money or power.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Money
  • Heart
  • Power

• I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Long
  • Art
  • Remember

• I'm the complete opposite of every clean cut, decent-looking guy you could ever think of. Yet, I have the biggest heart in the world.

  

  AJ McLean
  • World
  • Heart
  • Guy

• We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • World
  • Remember
  • Hope