Bill Vaughan Quotes
The clarity of gender makes possible the human dialectic. Let the lines of balanced tension go slack and the structure dissolves into the ooze of androgyny and narcissism.
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My sister, mom and I all wear the same size, so I shop a lot at a boutique called 'my mother's closet' that is right down the hall from my bedroom. She has vintage Comme des Garcons dresses that I feel so elegant wearing.
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I didn't want to be a number. I didn't want to be an object.
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I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind.
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One rare and exceptional deed is worth far more than a thousand commonplace ones.
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Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.
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I'd open doors for anyone who opens doors for me.
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During my theatre days, I was more comfortable doing comedy. It's such an irony. I have always played a buffoon on stage, and yet I don't have any comic role to my credit.
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Is it written that equality between men and women means one can change sex? Obviously not.
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I never consciously got into comedy. It was sort of one of those things where I was a theater student, I was acting, I was doing comedy, I was doing dramatic stuff, so it's been something that I've always done and enjoyed doing and had an instinct to be relatively good at.
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A politician ought to be born a foundling and remain a bachelor.
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Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the - to the back!
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If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
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Bikes and planes aren't about going fast or having fun; they're toys, but serious ones.
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I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.
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I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
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The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying that since Demosthenes.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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The problem is that they are all stars at Madrid. You need someone to carry the water to the well.
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If, by one determined purpose, the hearts of all the graduates, the officials, and the men of China were united, our country would rest upon a great rock, and we could defy the world to overthrow us. To attain this object, it is necessary first that every man should fulfill his duty to his parents and elders. The country would then be at peace.
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From the ashes of a financial crash, there is a chance to create a new economic settlement that is more equal, sustainable and democratic.
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My heart spasmed among the peonies like a trout.
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The clarity of gender makes possible the human dialectic. Let the lines of balanced tension go slack and the structure dissolves into the ooze of androgyny and narcissism.
