Bill Vaughan Quotes
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Because we're in a small town and somewhat isolated from the fast lane of high tech, we've been able to grow and concentrate on our work instead of being distracted by the competition and getting caught up in the soap opera of Silicon Valley.
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Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism.
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I'd like to scale back the television. I'm constantly told that I'm over-exposed, and I don't want to end up like Carol Vorderman.
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When I first got married to my husband, he had boxes full of photos of my two stepsons, ages 5 and 8 at the time, and I put them together in some little albums and wrote notes about how happy I was that they were a part of my life.
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There's a puppy store near where I live. They know me by name in there because I go so often.
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If you've followed my career at all, you will know that I perform best in comfortable surroundings. Though other leagues may seem more enticing to other players, it's something I'm just not interested in doing personally.
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It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.
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Asked to choose between money and fame, I'd choose the latter every time.
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I volunteer with School on Wheels in Los Angeles, and I also tutor with Koreh L.A.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!
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Rome will exist as long as the Coliseum does; when the Coliseum falls, so will Rome; when Rome falls, so will the world.
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There are many things I love in this world. Music, acting, and animals are at the top of that list.
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In Finland, we learned quite a lot from our own civil war. The wounds were visible when I was a boy, but my generation went into the Second World War and it united the Finnish nation, so I do not see any more wounds.
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At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.
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Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
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We can succeed only by concert. It is not, 'Can any of us imagine better,' but, 'Can we all do better?'
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People, me included, have a truly emotional thing about this iPad.
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Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.
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The most important principle of environment is that you are not the only element.
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I was always the shame of the family - the one Yankee who was actually born in the North.
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Whenever you need something from someone else before you can move forward, it's a dependency. We believe dependencies slow people down. We want people to be more independent, because that will keep them moving forward.
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Yet a personal God can become a grave liability. He can be a mere idol carved in our own image, a projection of our limited needs. fears and desires. We can assume that he loves what we love and hates what we hate, endorsing our prejudices instead of compelling us to transcend them.
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An American presidential campaign resembles a forced march through enemy country.
