Bill Vaughan Quotes
There is no occasion for our rejoicing at a foe's death, because our own life will also not last forever.
Quotes to Explore
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If I go on a diet and work out, I'm always in a bad mood. I'd rather be a little heavier but nice.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.
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We live in a world now where everything is tweeted and Instagrammed and tagged and now, God help us, Vined. Calling out grievances over Twitter has become an industry norm.
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I've been very fortunate with my three spec scripts - which is sort of my thematic trilogy of the American Frontier. With 'Sicario', 'Hell or High Water' and then 'Wind River' - which is the third - there were no rewrites. It was the first draft for all three.
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Introspection, or 'sitting in the silence,' is an unscientific way of trying to force apart the mind and senses, tied together by the life force. The contemplative mind, attempting its return to divinity, is constantly dragged back toward the senses by the life currents.
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
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I don't run after successful directors. I give importance to the content of the film.
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You want a career? Do that first. You don't want to have kids? Then don't. You don't want to get married? Then don't. But once you do something, you've got to know that there is compromise.
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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn't feel right to me – ever.
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My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.
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For more than 20 years, on every one of the great issues of freedom and security, John Kerry has been more wrong, more weak and more wobbly than any other national figure.
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I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf.
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After running for a while, things really start to open up in your body. I felt like I'd tapped into parts of my body that I hadn't before. I let things in the universe flow through me that opened me up in a really cool way.
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Like any group that has endured much, African Americans have created a strong and mutually reinforcing sense of group identity. That's not a bad thing in and of itself.
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I go to Australia probably once every two years. It's wide-open spaces there, so I just rent a motorcycle and ride out to the middle of the continent. For hours, you don't see anybody.
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
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Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death.
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I'm looking for a world where love will no longer be extraordinary.
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I don't know if I'm ever considered a part of the community I'm in.
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Watch and study the mosques, because a lot of talk is going on at the mosques.
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Your self-confidence increases when you know you are living your life according to your highest values.
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. . . every preacher who does not make prayer a mighty factor in his own life and ministry is weak as a factor in God's work and is powerless to project God's cause in this world.
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There is no occasion for our rejoicing at a foe's death, because our own life will also not last forever.
