Bill Vaughan Quotes
Kids are not driving themselves to McDonalds. It's not about kids and their choices. It's about parents and their choices.
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Nearly all government advice on terrorism sacrifices practical particulars for an unalarming tone. The usual guidance is to maintain a three-day supply of food and water along with a radio, flashlight, batteries and first-aid kit.
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Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.
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Always farm fresh eggs, never store bought.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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I was born in New York City. But my family moved when I was still an infant. Except for a year and half when we lived in Youngstown, Ohio, I grew up in small towns in Pennsylvania. I graduated from high school in Farrell, Pennsylvania.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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You can't, no matter what anyone says, build a movie around someone.
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In the name of the constitution of Texas, which has been trampled upon, I refuse to take this oath. I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her.
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I'm very ambitious, but I also love myself - which means I try to take care of myself.
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I do get recognized, more and more every day.
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Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family.
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I read nonfiction almost exclusively – both for research and also for pleasure. When I read fiction, it's almost always in the thriller genre, and it needs to rivet me in the opening few chapters.
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I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art.
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If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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Racism is everywhere - the older generations in Malaysia still say things like, 'She's darker-skinned; maybe don't marry her,' and it's very judgmental. A lot of girls do try to get fairness cream to lighten their skin, and I'm against all of that.
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The wrong kind of praise creates self-defeating behavior. The right kind motivates students to learn.
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I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano.
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There's always going to be someone somewhere who doesn't agree with my parents' opinion of me. It can't bother you.
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Parents go to sleep early. This is universal.
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I would be lying if I said the journalism doesn't reflect my own choices as a reporter and a writer: what to say, what to emphasize, how to say it, what is true or untrue.
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Kids are not driving themselves to McDonalds. It's not about kids and their choices. It's about parents and their choices.
