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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It's pure Black Label. It's about violence and booze. That's all it is. There is no plan.
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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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I like to laugh and make people have fun.
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An actor can change himself to fit a part, whereas a personality has to change the part to fit himself. The personality has to say it his own way.
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One has to take initiative in life to achieve what he or she wants.
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I think my grandmother Woodrell was most responsible for my becoming a writer. She wasn't quite literate, but was very proud that she attended school as far as the third grade. She worked as a maid, housekeeper and cook.
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Ever since I was really little, I loved performing and being up on stage, and being the entertainment.
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I don't want to be the policeman of Lebanon. It's not the business of Israel. Israel was not created to serve as a policeman of the region.
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I get in fights with my sister all the time. She comes on the road with me and we fight - like sisters do.
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When a woman talks, she just wants to be heard.
