Bill Vaughan Quotes
The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.
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If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.
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As Mayor, I will lead city government, businesses, and community groups to support innovative projects that will make San Francisco streets and public places vibrant and healthy.
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I don't ever want to be a person that I'm not. A lot of girls fall into the trap where they are trying to impress other people, and that's the time when they lose themselves.
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Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.
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I always see the absurdity in most situations. It's my experience of how life works.
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Past success is no guarantee of future success, so I have learned to be an entrepreneur. I began to produce and direct my own projects.
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Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.
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I could go off into the wilderness and write fantasy novels for the rest of my life and probably be happy; but I always want to challenge myself.
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I grew up as a Southern Baptist with strict adherence to the Bible, which I read as a youngster.
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The starting point for the new history, both in Europe and America, has been the record of births, marriages, and deaths, which most literate societies preserve in one form or another. In colonial America, surviving records of this kind - as of every other kind - are most abundant for New England.
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Remember you don't do anything in isolation.
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Robotics are beginning to cross that line from absolutely primitive motion to motion that resembles animal or human behavior.
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I love everything about playing for Newcastle, the club, the fans and the city.
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It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.
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She had been dressed in her sky-blue gown and had been suddenly almost terrible in her completeness-so different from the ragged serving girl who had slept on his shoulder. And yet, the very same girl had been inside that blue dress.
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He fell in love with himself at first sight and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful.
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Empathy lies at the heart of Gatsby, like so many other great novels - the biggest sin is to be blind to others' problems and pains. Not seeing them means denying their existence.
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If women are not perceived to be fully within the structures of power, surely it is power that we need to redefine rather than women?
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When you start writing a picture book, you have to write a manuscript that has enough language to prompt the illustrator to get his or her gears running, but then you end up having to cut it out because you don't want any of the language to be redundant to the pictures that are being drawn.
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98% of the people who get the magazine say they read the cartoons first - and the other 2% are lying.
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I can paint in jail.
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When it comes to making decisions, I'm not what you'd call a numbers guy.
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You have to be open to dreaming. It's a complicated language, but I'm obsessed with it.
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The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.
