Matthew Vaughn Quotes

I'm as conservative as they come.

Matthew Vaughn

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• But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.

  

  Adam Duritz Matt Malley
  • People
  • Music
  • Business

• I got to grow up in an incredibly artistic family.

  

  Zoe Cassavetes
  • Up
  • Family
  • Grow

• Waiting, waiting, waiting. All my life, I've been waiting for my life to begin, as if somehow my life was ahead of me, and that someday I would arrive at it.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • Life
  • Waiting
  • My Life

• Above all, we must avoid the pitfalls of tribalism. If we are divided among ourselves on tribal lines, we open our doors to foreign intervention and its potentially harmful consequences.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Doors
  • Lines
  • Consequences

• Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.

  

  B. B. King
  • You
  • Play
  • Blue

• Tax cuts are like sex: When they are good, they are very, very good. And when they are bad, they are still pretty good.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Pretty

• Guys back in the day, we didn't have wallets. I never kept my money in my pocket; my money always went in my sock. My key my mom gave me, I put it in my sock - whatever it was.

  

  Nate Robinson
  • Money
  • Day
  • Mom

• I love the word 'dearth,' by the way. It's one of my favorite words.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Words
  • Way
  • Favorite

• A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Strange
  • Analysis
  • Sight

• I'm an artist who works with pictures and words. Sometimes that stuff ends up in different kinds of sites and contexts which determine what it means and looks like.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Up
  • Different
  • Words

• Global conditions are far too complex to be able to imagine that they could ever be really controlled by one power.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Power
  • Far
  • Global

• Don't order one for the road, because the road is already laid out.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Road
  • Order
  • Out

• My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • Dog
  • Feet
  • Pet

• I learned that coming out was crucial to self-esteem.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Learned
  • Coming
  • Self-Esteem

• So instead of beating myself up for being fat, I think it's a miracle that I laugh every day and walk through my life with pride, because our culture is unrelenting when it comes to large people.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I was a ravenous child. I'm a ravenous adult. I love to eat.

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Love
  • Child
  • Eat

• Texas is not really a red state - it's just a non-voting state.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Red
  • Just
  • Texas

• I was never somebody who grew up going, 'I really want to be a singer in a band,' and I never had any ambition toward anything, really.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Up
  • Want
  • Band

• I wasn't one of those kids who was chasing the dream and wanted to get to Hollywood because one day I was gonna get my chance and be a big star. I never felt like that.

  

  C. Thomas Howell
  • Kids
  • Dream
  • Day

• I just wonder where I was when the talent was being given out, like George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Eric Clapton... oh, there's many more! I wouldn't want to be like them, you understand, but I'd like to be equal, if you will.

  

  B. B. King
  • Want
  • Wonder
  • Talent

• There were no Latin people on 'Star Trek,' that this was proof that they weren't planning to have us around for the future.

  

  John Leguizamo
  • People
  • Future
  • Star

• You must understand that at that time, the concentration camps were prisons where opponents of the Nazi regime were detained. Von Schuschnigg was in a concentration camp; so was Bruno Bettelheim for a time. The inmates were made to work at hard labor and lived in dreadful conditions, but they often came back from these places. Not until the 1940s did the words "concentration camp" come to stand for monstrous cruelty and almost certain death. Nobody even imagined there would one day be a death camp like Auschwitz.

  

  Edith Hahn Beer
  • Death
  • Labor
  • Regime

• I'm as conservative as they come.

  

  Matthew Vaughn