Bill Vaughan Quotes
I got shot in the head by my own guys in my foxhole. And they didn't even give me an honorable death.
Quotes to Explore
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Free market economists frequently see minimum wage legislation as mere political intervention. However, there are decent economic theories which show that, under certain circumstances, minimum wages can be beneficial, as it makes workers more productive.
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Congress seems to be very good at doing nothing.
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All I'm asking for is the law that's been on the books for the last 33 years, no public funding for abortion. We are both saying the same thing, pro-life, pro-choice. Let's find the language that works for both of us so we can pass health care.
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I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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A friend of mine encouraged me to try rapping, so I started experimenting with it, writing verses, seeing if I could fit an extra word or syllable into each line without tripping myself up.
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We all have original ideas. Even if we don't see ourselves as supercreative or as wild nonconformists, we have insights every day about how the world around us could be better. It might be a better way of running meetings in your office that would be less mind-numbing. It might be a little twist on a product or a service.
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I'm a big believer in the power of visualizations. And so are neuroscientists. Numerous studies have proven how merely imagining positive circumstances sends blood flowing from negative brain regions to positive ones.
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I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
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I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.
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I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.
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Life is too short to be on a diet.
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I know politics; I know the media.
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Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward.
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At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers.
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I went into science, ending up with a Ph.D. in cell biology, but along the way I found out that experimental science involves many hours and days and nights of laboratory work, which is a lot like washing dishes, only a little more challenging. I was too impatient, and maybe a little too sloppy, for it.
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I went to small liberal schools my whole life, and I was also a bad girl in high school; I went to, like, five schools.
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You would never see anyone go to a restaurant in Milan wearing a jumpsuit!
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There are ideas within Buddhism that are so incredible as to render the dogma of the virgin birth plausible by comparison.
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My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.
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I know this is something that I'm saying to every fan out there and every person that thinks the world of the Redskins and pulls for them, ... I know a lot of people will disagree with this, and I understand that. For me personally, I felt like it was a decision I had to make.
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I got shot in the head by my own guys in my foxhole. And they didn't even give me an honorable death.
