Brian K. Vaughan Quotes
I am a big theater fan. It's mostly just being pretentious, I think, and trying to look smart.
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I found that the corridors of power in Delhi were littered with lobbies of various kinds.
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
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Must we wait for selection to solve the problems of overpopulation, exhaustion of resources, pollution of the environment and a nuclear holocaust, or can we take explicit steps to make our future more secure? In the latter case, must we not transcend selection?
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I like '50s and '60s American art. I have 85 or 90 Warhols.
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I want to lay all my cards out on the table and walk away with no regrets.
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Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
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People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
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Growing up, there were TV shows that were very funny but very traditional. Classic things like 'Fawlty Towers,' obviously, and 'Blackadder' were pretty traditionally shot. And then there were the ones that start to break the mold or be really ambitious. The ones that spring particularly to mind would be 'The Young Ones.'
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You can't be responsible for the way people respond to you. You're only responsible for yourself.
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I've always just talked to my family and my friends. I've never been a person that's gone through excessive therapy at all. Some people might say that I should.
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Real Texans want their kids to have the best education possible, not the one politicians looking to brag about budget cuts have left us with.
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In times of crisis, the incumbent suffers. And the bigger the crisis, the greater the punishment inflicted on those in power unless they do something that makes a change.
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You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason.
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I just don't drink alcohol. I never have; I never will.
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I would like to get another job in London or tour there. I miss my friends.
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I like to be who I am.
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I work hard and I play hard, too. There is nothing wrong with that.
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You never walk out of the gym and say, 'I shouldn't have gone.'
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Bernanke and company are trying to reflate the economy with almost stated objective of inflation at 2 percent and higher in order to provide some type of safety margin for a future recession. That's where they want to go.
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If it's a cocktail party, I generally make five or six different things, and I try to choose recipes that feel like a meal: a chicken thing, a fish or shrimp thing, maybe two vegetable things, and I think it's fun to end the cocktail party with a sweet thing.
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It is almost as easy to be enervated by triumph as by defeat.
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Oh, Zoe Kazan - I'd move back to Brooklyn for her. She makes me happy with my life. Knowing her, being at her dinner table, going on a walk with her is the best of all possible worlds.
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I am a big theater fan. It's mostly just being pretentious, I think, and trying to look smart.
