Baron Vaughn Quotes
I think Batman Returns is right for riffs. I love it but it's the ultimate Tim Burton movie. There is so much that happens that's crazy and there are a ton of things to riff.
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Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.
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The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.
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What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.
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As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough.
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I'm a very ritualistic, routine-oriented person, and I discovered over the years that I love working Monday through Friday.
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Wealth is just consistency... I don't want to be rich. I want to be wealthy.
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Either communism must die or Christianity must die because it's actually a battle between Christ and anti-Christ.
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For the moment the peril was nowhere and yet everywhere. The majority remained solid; but the leaders became stiff and exacting.
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I was carrying my friend in his casket to put him in the hearse, and I was thinking, 'I need to write a song for this guy, because he always told me I would have a No. 1 song.'
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I encourage interoffice romance.
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I'm a designer, and I work very hard at that. People sometimes want to put down fashion by saying it's frivolous or superficial, but it's not that way at all. It's actually very hard work.
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I was about 15 years old, and I needed a job, and somebody I know - I don't even know who it was - said that there was a television show that needed a presenter and that I should go and audition for it, so I did. That was a show called 'The Word,' and I got that job.
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The weight that hangs upon our eyelids - is of lead.
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An activist is one who is actively involved in creating community, whether that is locally in their neighborhood or internationally. It is an admirable quality.
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I think it's just so important that parents actually really study the apps on the phones and figure out what's going on.
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Projects can take years to exhibit proof-of-concept and a few more years to be converted into commercial realities.
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I think that's the most important thing: when life kind of screws you over a little bit, you've got to learn from that experience.
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First time I'd ever subbed a kid in and out before he played.
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I think [testing] has had a profoundly problematic impact on student learning. It must seem to students that their worth as individuals is equivalent to their test score. The stress the high stakes culture has on teachers is also highly negative and must surely impact students in a negative way. It also de-professionalizes teachers because it encourages them to be script readers, followers of rigid schedules, and to disregard the needs of the people they teach in favor of the scripts and schedules.
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You need a degree of foolishness to cause disruptive change in healthcare. Dare to dream.
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I think Batman Returns is right for riffs. I love it but it's the ultimate Tim Burton movie. There is so much that happens that's crazy and there are a ton of things to riff.
