Bill Vaughan Quotes
There is a mighty big difference between good sound reasons and reasons that sound good.
Quotes to Explore
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Team synergy has an extraordinary impact on business results.
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Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us.
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I firmly believe that one of the best kept secrets to soft and glowing skin is moisturisation.
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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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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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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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A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.
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I think Ingmar Bergman, Francoise Truffaut - all these people created images in my mind, beautiful pictures, I loved what was known at that time as the foreign film.
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The entirety of 'Bellocq's Ophelia' was a project, and I was interested in doing research and looking at photographs and writing about them, imagining this woman Ophelia and what her life was like and the kinds of things she thought about.
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When it comes to women, there has been a tendency to define women in sports in the context of their relationships - they watch games because their husbands watch. They're interested because their kids play a sport. They buy tickets to a sporting event because it's a way to spend time with family.
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The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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My mother took great relish in introducing me as 'This is my son - he's a doctor but not the kind that helps people.'
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On stage, you can use your emotions. It's the place where you can channel them. They have a purpose.
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Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.
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We are a typical working class northern family, big into our football... no one in the family was into acting. But I remember seeing a panto when I was about six and thinking, 'Yeah... I wouldn't mind doing that.'
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When Elvis was performing, you just tried to figure out a way to get there. I think he set all the records and anyone that has ever had the good fortune to see him, you know what it's like to try to get in to see Elvis. It was impossible, practically.
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The Cistercians do not eat meat... Yet they keep pigs to the number of many thousands, and sell the bacon - though perhaps not quite all of it. The heads, legs, and feet they neither give away, throw away, nor sell. What becomes of them God knows.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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When I first started working at MIT, back in the '80s, our writing department had a joint cocktail party with the Harvard writing department. It was kind of oil-and-water.
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I think that I could have been take apart if the bear market continued, but I waited three years before I felt the bear market was over and I was right.
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When our interests matched, the Americans have been good to us, and when the interests differed, they wanted us to mold ourselves to them, which we refused.
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I think the humor, when applied in the right amount, only serves to intensify the other emotions in a given song; it highlights them, makes them stand out.
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They say, 'The coward dies many times'; so does the beloved. Didn't the eagle find a fresh liver to tear in Prometheus every time it dined?
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There is a mighty big difference between good sound reasons and reasons that sound good.
