Bill Vaughan Quotes
A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
Bill Vaughan
Quotes to Explore
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It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music.
Zubin Mehta
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
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It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to play outside the rules. It's dramatic, it's interesting, and I think it's something we can all identify with to a degree.
Beau Willimon
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If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.
Taylor Wilson
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Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.
Tallulah Bankhead
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'RoboCop,' when that came out, was like the best comic book movie ever, and it's not based on a comic book.
Edgar Wright
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I'm happy to say that I'm a lesbian in the world. I know there are people who don't want to be called women comedians, but I think it gives a path to the fact that we live in extremely patriarchal times.
Kate Clinton
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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.
Adam D'Angelo
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I don't care whether you use natural gas, ethanol, the battery. You can use anything, just so it's American.
T. Boone Pickens
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Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
Karl Amadeus Hartmann
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
Pat Conroy
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
Famke Janssen
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There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
Orlando Bloom
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Only a cheap politician, greedy for political gain, would try to single out one individual for blame. The fault lies not with the individual but with the system, and that system is Richard Nixon.
Pat Paulsen
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I do watch 'Revenge,' 'American Horror Story' and 'Game of Thrones.' I am behind on all of them. But I do watch them. Those are my go-to shows.
Lana Parrilla
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The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out.
Lance Morrow
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Authoritarianism, an unrealistic occidental imagination - these issues will never be settled. Turkey will continue to take Europe as a model; it will continue to pursue its search for democracy.
Orhan Pamuk
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If I had a daughter, and some guy came home with her, I'd be on him like a hawk. When I meet people's parents, I know my place. It's not that hard.
Zac Efron
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Prominent scientists have become increasingly convinced that the connection between carbon emissions and rising temperatures is real, but skeptics have whole truckloads of studies to demonstrate the opposite.
David Ignatius
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In the theater, actors are the essential element of the work. In a film, it's a real collaboration - not that theater isn't, because it is - but it's a collaboration to such an extent that you can give a performance in film that sometimes you look at and you go, "Well, that's not the performance I was trying to give at all."
Karen Allen
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I'm continuously playing this game of what's real and what's not real, and having to balance and judge and realize that there are things that carry real weight in the world and actually have power in them. And there are things that are just pointless, and you don't have to pay attention to those things.
Amandla Stenberg
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While we can learn or study techniques for almost anything we might want to accomplish, real understanding is not the mere accumulation of knowledge. Understanding cannot be realized by listening or reading about the realization of others. It must be achieved firsthand via substantive, direct perception in the moment.
H. E. Davey
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If racial minorities, sexual minorities, feminists both male and female, hell, all liberals got together and had this big 'too much information,' 'go there,' voice...that would equal power. And that power would equal change. And that change would equal a revolution.
Margaret Cho
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A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
Bill Vaughan
