Bill Vaughan Quotes
If CASA?s board, which includes such scientific experts as actress Jamie Lee Curtis, wants to tell the world that drinking is bad for you, that?s their prerogative? But there?s no excuse for political activism masquerading as science.
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Awards don't really mean much.
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Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school.
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.
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Americans are really obsessed with their teeth being white and straight, aren't they? I saw this little girl the other day with one of those whole head braces. Elastic all the way around! How traumatizing for a child to have to wear one of those! You look like a monster.
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Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.
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Shooting is very challenging because 10 metre air rifle you have different rules, short gun you have different rules.
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I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
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I really appreciate people like Rosie coming out and saying I've inspired them.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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I'm not attached to things at all. I'm very lucky to have quite a few beautiful things, but if I look back at my life, I was often happiest when I had very little.
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I can't even be around children. It's a problem. My ovaries start screaming.
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I'm a good audience in general, but it's hard to make me laugh.
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We'll only be playing four new songs live, but all the material for the next album is basically finished.
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When we write about Auschwitz, we must know that Auschwitz, in a certain sense at least, suspended literature. One can only write a black novel about Auschwitz or - you should excuse the expression - a cheap serial, which begins in Auschwitz and is still not over.
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Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.
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You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure.
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Old is the new sexy.
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We have a President, perhaps for the very first time since the founding of our republic, who doesn't appear to believe that America is the greatest earthly force for good the world has ever known.
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I'm often asked how I get ideas for my stories. The answer is there's no single way; every story is different.
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Meeting my wife Amanda was the best thing that could ever have happened to me. She wasn't going to let me screw around my life anymore, so I stopped drinking and started behaving like a decent human being.
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If CASA?s board, which includes such scientific experts as actress Jamie Lee Curtis, wants to tell the world that drinking is bad for you, that?s their prerogative? But there?s no excuse for political activism masquerading as science.
