Bill Vaughan Quotes
Managers at [the nuclear] sector should know that we need diplomacy and not slogans, .. This [is] where we should use all our leverages with patience and wisdom, without provocation and slogans that can give pretexts to the enemies.
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The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
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I don't think I'd want a revival. I'm not doing a tribute to myself.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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I might get drunk one day and fall in love or fall over a hooker outside, and I would have consummated a relationship that I couldn't necessarily believe in.
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Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.
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I don't think about the press or the crowds or the other leaders of the race. The focus is only on myself. As soon as I see the targets, I tune them out.
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I am a profound pessimist both about life and about human relations and about politics and ecology. Humans are inadequate and stupid creatures who sooner or later make a mess, and those who are trying to do good do a lot more damage than those who are muddling along.
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Downloading songs is not good.
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I have a dining room done in different shades of white, with white cushions embroidered in yellow silk: the effect is absolutely delightful and the room beautiful.
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Art isn't held with the same high regard as it is after success. In any country, in any language, you're a loser if you're making music until you prove otherwise.
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Being the leader of a division is a pressure, but it's one that I feel I am ready for.
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The village I come from is the most ruthless, lawless land one can encounter.
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Shell has poured billions of dollars into offshore Arctic drilling, but no matter how much it spends, it cannot make the effort anything but a terrifying gamble. And if Shell, the most profitable company on Earth, can't buy its way to safety in Alaska, nobody can.
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There are no ordinary moments.
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People in Russia adapt to misery by a deep, deep humor.
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Make yourself necessary to somebody.
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You take all the things that frighten you, and when you can get them to work for you all of sudden people are calling you a success.
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Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'
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Most men, when they think they are thinking, are merely rearranging their prejudices.
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"It pleases the Father that ALL fulness" should be there; and therefore there is nothing but emptiness anywhere else.
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I think about Laura Bush every once in awhile. She is a great supporter of the arts. I did a show at the Eisenhower Theater, and she would make a point of coming backstage. The relationship between Laura and George Bush was always that way where you felt like he was at his best behavior when he was in her company.
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Managers at [the nuclear] sector should know that we need diplomacy and not slogans, .. This [is] where we should use all our leverages with patience and wisdom, without provocation and slogans that can give pretexts to the enemies.
