Vaughn Monroe Quotes
There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.
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I greatly enjoy reading the biographies of scientists, and when doing so I always hope to learn the secrets of their success. Alas, those secrets generally remain elusive.
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Imagination rules the world.
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When I had no money, I would find out which friend had work and money at that point in time and would go and stay with him for a week. All of us theatre guys did that.
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You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
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I've always been excited by rotoscoping, the technique used in films like 'Waking Life,' which fuses animation with real-life emotion. It seemed like it was a process ripe for innovation.
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History's a resource.
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Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I might go on discussing this subject at great length, but after all is said, done, and written, my own book of experiences will best show what these obstacles are, and how I managed to overcome them to some extent.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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Bruckner's Eighth is a colossus.
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You can condemn and criticize religion... all those things are fine, but you can't mock and disrespect people.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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As long as the number one worry for people, keeping them up at nights, is whether they're going to have a job in the morning, then they are less likely to resist unfair changes, or unfair treatment, or cuts in real pay at work.
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I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
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No hero is mortal till he dies.
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A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.
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I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.
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Someone with whom we have a lifetime's worth of lessons to learn is someone whose presence in our lives forces us to grow...those who consciously or unconsciously challenge our fearful positions. They show us our walls. Our walls are our wounds--the places where we feel we can't love any more, can't connect any more deeply, can't forgive past a certain point. We are in each other's lives in order to help us see where we most need healing, and in order to help us heal.
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The only time anyone has ever gotten into serious trouble was when he decided he could do nothing about something.
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We ought to be more focused on enemies without than preoccupied with finding them within.
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A lot of people like the idea of eternal love and eternal romance. The notion of love that is more profound and deeper because it is eternal is very powerful.
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I'm hoping that somehow with songs like 'American Gold' there will be some kind of justice, and people just stop being so close-minded to where they're like, 'Oh, it's not race.' It's easy to say that when you're not black and you haven't experienced it.
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There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.
