Matthew Vaughn Quotes
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We went from journalism, in newspapers that gets heavily edited, to blogs, where you can express your opinions, to tweeting, where you can say anything, and it gets repeated and becomes fact when it isn't. It's something the entire world is going to have to come to grips with.
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No sensible author wants anything but praise.
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When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: 'Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right.'
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There are lots of actors who insist on speaking the lines themselves, and you hear the same thing from directors and the audience, but I don't think it's worth getting het up about. I think it makes more sense to use someone who speaks that country's language: that's what voice actors are for.
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Banking gives you a glimpse into what makes companies succeed and what makes companies fail.
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We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.
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Facebook now is mostly about people you know. In the future it could be about people you know less but are more important.
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When you're the president of the United States, you have no money unless the Congress says, 'Here's what you can spend it on.'
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I love hugging people. I still hug everybody in my meet-and-greet lines.
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But, in North Korea, it's just the opposite. There's one story. It's written by the Kim regime. And 23 million people are conscripted to be secondary characters. There, as a youth, your aptitude towards certain jobs is measured, and the rest of your life is dictated, whether you'll be a fisherman or a farmer or an opera singer.
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I played piano and was always in the choir. I tried to play flute because all the pretty girls played flute.
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I always challenge myself. I get out in deep water and I always try to get back. But I get hung up. The audience never knows, but that's when I smile the most, when I show the most ivory.
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The truth is I don't feel too bad for my age. I actually have a better shape now than I used to.
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Adolescence is a modern construct and very American in so many ways.
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You know, punk bands now sell with one record - their first or second record - sell 10 times the amount of records than the Ramones did throughout their career with 20-something records. That's why I go over to Johnny Ramone's house and do yard work three times a week, just to absolve some of the guilt.
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I wanted to be in this business, and once I got into the business I knew I enjoyed it, and I liked it, and I wanted to continue, but I never had a five year plan.
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It is hard for anyone who discovers George Washington not to write about him, perhaps because he is so hard to discover and such a surprise when you do.
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On the other hand one must not entertain any fantastic illusions on the productive power of the credit system, so far as it supplies or sets in motion money-capital.
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I am obviously a striker who likes to score a lot of goals and have done that in every team I have been with.
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Catty is not cool. I can't think of anything less becoming than a man who talks about people behind their backs.
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Young children seem to be learning who to share this toy with and figure out how it works, while adolescents seem to be exploring some very deep and profound questions: 'How should this society work? How should relationships among people work?' The exploration is: 'Who am I, what am I doing?'
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I remember when I was a kid looking at different types of film and really examining the grains of them. I remember even looking at the ink streaks.
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Growing up in Fife, you were aware that there were these creatures called lesbians, but it was in the realms of complete freakishness. And I didn't feel like a freak.
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Cliches are what make you understand something.
