Vaughn Monroe Quotes
We spent the next three years working up a nice, sweet society band and then realized that although we had plenty of class appeal, we had little or no mass appeal. So we started all over again and reorganized to get some jump and rhythm. But through it all we've tried to play the type of music that fits in with soft lights and sweet whispers.
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My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the big drawing room into a library lined with books.
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I think in a play it's wise to just sit back and watch other actors and be able to shape it from the audience.
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There ain't no genius here. Strategy in baseball is overrated. People say, 'That Weaver, he plays for the long ball too much.' You bet I do. Hit 'em out. Then I got no worry about somebody lousing up a bunt, I got no worry about the hit and run - and that's really overrated - I got no worry about base-running errors. And I can't screw it up myself.
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To be a designer today is to be an entrepreneur. Whether you're a two-man operation in Shoreditch or a 3,000-person, vertically integrated brand, you need to have the wherewithal to run your business through investment, considering everything from start-up funds to your exit plan or what it takes to go public.
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What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.
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My mom didn't let me play video games growing up, so now I do. Gaming gives me a chance to just let go, blow somebody up and fight somebody from another dimension. It's all escapism.
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Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
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Dissensions between Muslim nations run at least as deep, if not deeper, than those nations' resentment of the West.
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You want to help gay kids, you have to reach them in middle school and high school, when they're being bullied.
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I know about the tech industry in that I follow what apps are hot and software development. I know my way around different browsers. I know how to restart a computer.
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We're trying to make money, trying to add a zero onto our net worth.
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Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.
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The main thing that you have to remember on this journey is, just be nice to everyone and always smile.
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I'm like the wine. The older I get, the better I get.
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If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.
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If you like gold, there are many reasons you should like Bitcoin.
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I saw the S.B.A. with just enormous potential, and that's what I told the president - this is really a jewel.
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My mother never really thought I could become anything.
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Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.
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When the desire is on for one particular person, nobody else will do.
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We want to create a society that is working for us and with us - and we're working for society, not against it.
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It is my conviction that those who disregard the reality of Heaven will ultimately find themselves on the wrong side of history.
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We spent the next three years working up a nice, sweet society band and then realized that although we had plenty of class appeal, we had little or no mass appeal. So we started all over again and reorganized to get some jump and rhythm. But through it all we've tried to play the type of music that fits in with soft lights and sweet whispers.
