Bill Vaughan Quotes
The United States grants the favors of the second, third, or fifty-seventh chance, and its citizens remain free to invent for themselves whatever character draws a crowd or pays the rent.
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My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.
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Do your eye shadow first, then your foundation. That way, you can clean up any mess without starting all over again.
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We confuse activity with progress, and that's always dangerous, especially in war.
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In so far as such a theory is empirically correct it will also tell us what empirical facts it should be possible to observe in a given set of circumstances.
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There's no first impressions anymore. You go to a job interview, and they'll probably Google you. It's a shame - people should play it a little closer to the chest as far as what information they release to the world. If I'm angry about something, I'm not going to take to my Twitter.
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Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It's for children and families. Not for people like me.
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I played a lot of squash for a lot of years.
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I influence people, hopefully on the positive side.
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Socialism is practical, in the best sense of the term; a living, vital force of inestimable value to society.
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I was inspired to spend an entire year - my 65th year - reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu's messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.
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I don't really consider myself an impressionist.
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I went through the extremes of amazing notoriety and also the dreaded things that you never thought you'd have to live through. Not everything works the way you want it to, but if I sit back and think, 'Am I happy about this?' Yeah. I wouldn't have done anything any better.
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Prohibition of substances which give pleasure to people does not work. Addiction is a health problem, not a moral one, and there are many proven strategies which can reduce its burden.
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When you know that people know who you are, you are always working - and not the work you want to do. You are sort of performing, because you know they are looking - or at least glancing - at you.
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Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
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You like the style of the people you like because it reflects something inside them.
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It was just really odd to be in a room with Ian McKellen sharing cucumber sandwiches.
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All I have to do to continue to make things work is make great records, and that's more important than having a crazy master plan.
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You can still wear trousers and show off your ankles - which are a nice body part on everyone.
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It is very, very rare where a slight that turns into a grudge that is in need of forgiveness is only about one of the parties. In most of our day-to-day situations - with colleagues at work, with your partner, with your children, with your friends - most of the time, if you really got down with each other and put aside your pride and your defensiveness and you had those hard conversations, you'd find a place where both people had something to ask for forgiveness from the other and to forgive the other.
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Every man must play the part of his ambition. If you are trying to be a successful man, you must play the part.
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With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see.
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Regarding race or gender or sexuality, one of the great things about art and music is that they can provide people with very little else in common with a similar entry point for discussion, but the discussions still need to happen for life to get more interesting.
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The United States grants the favors of the second, third, or fifty-seventh chance, and its citizens remain free to invent for themselves whatever character draws a crowd or pays the rent.
