Bill Vaughan Quotes
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We're traditional and don't do cutting-edge styles, but after 17 years we're holding our own.
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You can't just keep recycling revivals. And you can't keep betting on the efforts of guys like me who've been around. You have to take the next step and bet on the next generation.
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My uncle was the first brown person to have a market stall on Petticoat Lane in the 1960s. He worked his way up from the street. He was homeless, but eventually he got a car so he could sell from the boot. And by the 1980s, he was a millionaire wholesaling to companies like Topshop. So in a way, fashion put me in England.
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In 1993, when I landed in Zimbabwe, there were just 10 psychiatrists in that country of 10 million people. Nine of the 10 were foreigners who spoke no regional language.
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There are grave misgivings that the discussion on ecology may be designed to distract attention from the problems of war and poverty.
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Digital India is the only way for citizen empowerment, which can bring government transparency and accountability to citizens.
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A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
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I was getting a little bored with my hair. It's kind of a symbolic thing, just getting rid of the past, moving forward. It's amazing what a reaction you get when you cut your hair.
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No one is India.
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The U.S. and European markets have become mature, profit margins are lower, and equipment isn't so new. Because profits are relatively low, it limits the willingness of companies to invest in newer equipment.
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Rock Hudson wasn't my type. He's a great guy and had a great sense of humor.
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It's pure Black Label. It's about violence and booze. That's all it is. There is no plan.
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Science is defined in various ways, but today it is generally restricted to something which is experimental, which is repeatable, which can be predicted, and which is falsifiable.
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I didn't feel the kind of joy every day playing drums that I thought you were supposed to feel.
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I like to spend as much time with my friends and family as possible.
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I really feel like I honed in on a sound and a style of writing that best fits me.
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I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.
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You can make a hit song in 15 minutes. I don't know about someone else's song, but songs that people like of mine, I've created in 15 minutes or less.
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Walk softly and carry a big stick. Or stomp loudly and carry enough firepower to start a small war. Whatever worked
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What's cool is that Oprah is the same person on stage and in front of a camera as she is off stage and behind the scenes. She speaks the same way on camera as she does off camera.
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I know who Queen Elizabeth represents. I know she's the head of the British state. I know she has all sorts of titles in relation to different regiments in the British army. She knows my history. She knows I was a member of the IRA. She knows I was in conflict with her soldiers, yet both of us were prepared to rise above all of that.
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Hillary Clinton really wants to be president. She wanted to be president in '08. She's hardly left the spotlight.
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When a woman talks, she just wants to be heard.
