Bill Vaughan Quotes
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I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.
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The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.
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Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.
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I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.
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I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood.
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In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.
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People will always challenge you on an idea as long as it has not been concretized by somebody else.
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I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.
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My motivation and aspiration is the same, being number one or being number five. So that's the truth. And my goal is the same - it's to always be happy playing, it's to enjoy the game and improve always.
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The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.
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We Christians should be aware that there's something at stake in cultural participation that we wouldn't have been concerned about if all we did was worry about the messages in culture.
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I can't say 'I'm proud to say' - because it's not a choice for many Americans - but I can say I'm fortunate enough to not be raising my kids on McDonald's.
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If you look at the market cap increase in Apple since it created the iPod versus what's happened to the music industry, you have to say Apple got the better part of that deal.
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I think young adults get a bad rap for being self-absorbed and self-centered. My experience going around the United States and speaking in schools is that teenagers here are very interested in the fate of their peers around the world.
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I don't go out unless I'm working. My quality time is when I'm doing nothing.
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People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.
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If our history can challenge the next wave of musicians to keep moving and changing, to keep spiritually hungry and horny, that's what it's all about.
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Harvard was the most intimidating experience. I felt so out of my league there.
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To dance is to give channel to the Creator.
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I have long come to believe that, more than any other destruction, our word-recklessness is endangering the future of us all.
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There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back.
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Humans like to think of themselves as unusual. We've got big brains that make it possible for us to think, and we think that we have free will and that our behavior can't be described by some mechanistic set of theorems or ideas. But even in terms of much of our behavior, we really aren't very different from other animals.
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Hay smells different to lovers and horses.
