Baron Vaughn Quotes
[Harold Pinter] is a British playwright and is one of my favorite writers. Harold was very obsessed with when memory becomes mythology, that at some point you change your memory to fit who you believe you are.
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If I really believe that visual representation and narrative are ways to convey important, complex ideas, and if the world is gravitating toward this form, then geez, I better do it myself. I want to do it myself.
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We have to stand up for what we believe in, even when we might not be popular for it. Honesty starts with being ourselves, authentic and true to who we are and what we believe in, and that may not always be popular, but it will always let you follow your dreams and your heart.
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I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.
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Don't ever forget two things I'm going to tell you. One, don't believe everything that's written about you. Two, don't pick up too many checks.
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It has been said that love is a function of communication. I believe that to be true. I believe, by extension, that human understanding is a function of communication. And the better human beings understand one another, the higher the level of functioning.
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Many Christians do not believe God sends tornadoes. But they do believe that God walks with His children through the storms, that He sends His people to help after the storms, and that with and through God, there is always hope.
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Psychology doesn't like to talk about evil. It likes to talk about bad childhoods. But I very much believe that some people are evil and motivation is not necessary for evil.
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People tend to think they know you when you come into their televisions every week. They think you are different than who you are. Don't believe everything you hear.
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Time dissolves in summer anyway: days are long, weekends longer. Hours get all thin and watery when you are lost in the book you'd never otherwise have time to read. Senses are sharper - something about the moist air and bright light and fruit in season - and so memories stir and startle.
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When I was young I felt really overwhelmed and confused by the desire not to end up in an office, doing something I didn't believe in.
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You won't believe it, but for the first two years of our marriage I lived off my wife. Like every self-respecting man, I hated it.
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I believe in traditional marriage.
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I believe you've got to do your due diligence.
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I believe that the confidence of Hungary in me is not shaken by misfortune nor broken by my calumniators.
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Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is 'The X Factor.'
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'Is not all this an extraordinary concatenation of coincidence?' Pelorat said, 'If you list it like that-' 'List it any way you please,' said Trevize. 'I don’t believe in extraordinary concatenations of coincidence.'
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As a general matter, I believe we should be very slow to make conclusions about the nature of the cosmos based upon inner experience – no matter how profound these experiences seem.
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I find that the whiter my hair becomes the more ready people are to believe what I say.
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I know that war and mayhem run in our blood. I refuse to believe that they must dominate our lives. We humans are animals, too, but animals with amazing powers of rationality, morality, society. We can use our strength and courage not to savage each other, but to defend our highest purposes.
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I'm not going to break up my family, not for a book.
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We live in a world where everyone thinks they do the right thing, so they are entitled to do the wrong thing. So ends can justify the means.
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I just wish this social institution [religion] wasnt based on what appears to me to be a monumental hoax built on an accumulation of customs and myths directed toward proving something that isnt true.
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[Harold Pinter] is a British playwright and is one of my favorite writers. Harold was very obsessed with when memory becomes mythology, that at some point you change your memory to fit who you believe you are.
