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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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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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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There's this whole problem of trafficking, which has gotten worse in the economic downturn, which disproportionately affects young women, but also affects some young men who are sold into bondage, into basically servitude for indebted work that they can often never escape from.
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I don't like people who get into fights about football - or anything else.
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It is a wake-up call for all of us unless we put our house in order. The people of this country are becoming restless.
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Secrets are more powerful when people know you've got them," said Mr. Sutton. "You show them the tiniest edge of your secret, but the rest you keep under wraps.
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When High and Mighty people want to make us believe that they possess some good quality which they in fact do not have, it is dangerous to show that you doubt them; because, by removing their hope of deceiving the world, you also remove their desire to perform the good acts that might have arisen from their very pretensions.
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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.
