Bill Vaughan Quotes
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I realized I made a big mistake and if I could have it over again, I would do it so much differently.
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To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.
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In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.
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I really wasn't even sure if I should continue acting. I would like try and figure out if I could be good enough to do it. It was like 10 or 12 years into my career before I felt like maybe I can do it. It was such a different time than now.
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It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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I'm very involved with kids because after being a teacher for seven years, I just can't stop loving the kids. I am a teacher forever.
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For years Don Imus was just – boy, he was merciless in his criticism of me. Maybe it was justified, but that didn't mean it didn't hurt.
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The prize for ultimate inefficiency goes to America. We have built in so many checks and balances that our 'leaders' are the most thoroughly hogtied of any on Earth.
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As humans, we all want our own island. Of course, the truth is, we're never going to get it.
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I normally wear Stuart Weitzman or Kors Michael Kors.
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I love big, bold, truthful theater - the tradition of Victorian theater.
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Europe and European identity is rooted in Christianity.
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I don't think there's any show comparable to 'Game of Thrones' in terms of the way it does the fantasy element to such a high standard: everything is created with so much care and detail. You really feel like you are transported into this entirely other fictional place.
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Like 'real', 'free' is only used to rule out the suggestion of some or all of its recognized antitheses. As 'truth' is not a name of a characteristic of assertions, so 'freedom' is not a name for a characteristic of actions, but the name of a dimension in which actions are assessed.
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What counts for most people in investing is not how much they know, but rather how realistically they define what they don't know. 'The genius of Warren Buffett in 23 quotes' MarketWatch (19 August 2015)
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America, I know the road will be long, but I know we can get there. Yes, we will stumble, but I know we’ll get back up. That’s how a movement happens. That’s how history bends. That's how when somebody is faint of heart, somebody else brings them along and says, come on, we’re marching.
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Unless physical action reflects psychic action, unless the deeds express the person, I get very bored with adventure stories; often it seems that the more action there is, the less happens.
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We haven't usually had to face the extreme questions about liberty and order because we're not a nation of extremists. We love freedom and good government both.
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Nationalist Socialist Germany wants peace because of its fundamental convictions. And it wants peace also owing to the realization of the simple primitive fact that no war would be likely essentially to alter the distress in Europe. The principal effect of every war is to destroy the flower of the nation. Germany needs peace and desires peace!
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Since I travel to the four corners of this planet for work, I don't need sun holidays or that kind of thing.
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The rain does not fall in a certain land only; the sun does not shine only on a particular country. All that comes from God is for all souls. Verily, blessing is for every soul; for every soul, whatever be one's faith or belief, belongs to God.
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Rabbit feels as if the human race is a vast colourful jostling bristling parade in which he is limping and falling behind.
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The same sun that melts butter hardens clay.