Bill Vaughan Quotes
It's never safe to be nostalgic about something until you're absolutely certain there's no chance of its coming back
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I don't have any problem with being the guy whose album people put on when they're feeling sad.
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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.
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I don't think about the future. I don't think about the past. I just think of what comes into my head at the time. So that might be about the past, that might be about the future. Or, the present.
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In the Great Depression, you bought something if you had the cash to buy it.
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Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.
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I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually.
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I enjoy my life.
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How are we doing in the electronics field as opposed to, you know, we hear how advanced the Japanese are? Do you think we're still pretty competitive? Oh, yes.
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You see people in Hollywood trying to make blockbuster after blockbuster, but it's not possible. There's some god up there saying, 'You will fail now.' But I suppose that's true of us all.
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The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers and travellers did the work of fiction, and Cooper's Prairie had few followers.
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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
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Twenty years ago, I said there was going to be something that would stop the Soviet Union from taking over the world. And now we see that the Soviet Union has been stopped, through its own disintegration.
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I'm not on the radio all day long. I'm not on TV.
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I am doing characters that have so many layers. And I am very lucky that I show a lot of variety.
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I don't regret the passing of time. I try to live in the present, which should mean my life's full.
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My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family.
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Our plans for 'Superman?' I can't say. This is the most super secret thing ever. It's like working for the government, like I'm on a covert mission.
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A knave thinks himself a fool, all the time he is not making a fool of some other person.
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A couple of times we make a mistake by being so aggressive, ... We come up and we probably had a chance to get the guy down, but we try to explode on him and miss a tackle.
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Take a chance and try my fare! It will grow on you, I swear; Soon it will taste good to you!
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Such is life and life is such and after all it isn't much. First a cradle. Then a hearse. It might have been better, but it could have been worse.
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It's never safe to be nostalgic about something until you're absolutely certain there's no chance of its coming back
