Robert Vaughn Quotes
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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
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There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
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An individual voice can be heard in a choir that otherwise sings in unison. This is something that is not excused.
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Of, course it always cheers a news editor when a story has what we describe as 'legs' therefore it, erm, runs.
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I am insecure... because I have to think about what I look like every day.
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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.
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It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.
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If I believe that I am right, I will take it to the end of the earth until I am proven right.
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The lion's share of what I hear right now are people who, intentional or accidental, have avoided all jazz prior to 1960. And all the musicians who were successful in the '60s spent their entire lives, prior to 1960, listening to all the musicians these people avoid.
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But it's a journey and the sad thing is you only learn from experience, so as much as someone can tell you things, you have to go out there and make your own mistakes in order to learn.
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I'm not ashamed to be gay.
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I was in Liverpool city center and I thought I broke one of my toes, just by jumping on buses. I put my arm in the door on the outside, and the bus just drives away with me naked.
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We'll do a crazy video of a great song that people can actually dance to.
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'The Autobiography of Malcolm X.' I've used it to demonstrate racial attitudes to people who I thought needed a better understanding of all human beings. Malcolm was not a racist. He was not looking for revenge. He realized that kindness and goodness did not come from any one kind of person.
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I think the woman who buys my dress also wants a beautiful pillow.
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It's incredibly important to understand history... when it comes to inequality.
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You can believe what you want religiously. Religion is one thing, but science, provable science, is something else.
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Kristen Bell is one of my best friends. I've had the pleasure of working with some really great people, and Kristen is just a beautiful, talented young lady.
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CNN's problem goes to its very core and to the identity it's sought ever since the rise of Fox News, on its right: CNN is the channel for people who don't want to watch the other channels! That's a stupid strategy.
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When you work on a pre-existing character, when you end up getting invited to be part of a legacy character like Superman, I don't feel like it would be true to the character if all I did was go in looking to express my own voice.
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I knew very early on that there would be quite a bit of attention: Superman is known all over the place.
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Comics, as good as they might be, they didn't know much about performance. There aren't too many comics you could watch for an hour without getting tired. They might have good material, but it's about theater to me.
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I spent 10 years in professional politics and eight writing comics, and so I look at it from both sides. I don't understand the logic in being frustrated with a system, so you choose to be a part of the reason why the system is so frustrating. If everybody voted, it wouldn't be this way.
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I read Superman comics when I was a kid.
