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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I carry a lot of my weight in my stomach. I just want to have... not even a number, but to have my body in a different shape.
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Never forget that what becomes timeless was once truly new.
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You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening.
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Mrs Morel always said the after-life would hold nothing in store for her husband: he rose from the lower world into purgatory, when he came home from pit, and passed into heaven in the Palmerston Arms.
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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.
