Baron Vaughn Quotes
I am a big fan of Neil DeGrasse Tyson. He's the voice of science and scientific thinking in the United States and the world. He's the most visible proponent of scientific thinking, and he's very unflinching about it. He knows that it's correct and vouches for it in a very intelligent and very firm way, which I really appreciate.
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.
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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.
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No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.
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My favourite job hands down - and I think I can speak for everyone involved - was 'Breaking Bad.'
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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.
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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.
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Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because she's had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.
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It is very difficult to get legislation passed. But then the danger always is that you have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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I want to walk the red carpet at the Oscars. I am in awe of the ceremony, and winning an Oscar would be the most magical moment of my life. I want to make that speech and hold that trophy and say, 'This is for you, India.' That's the line I have rehearsed for God knows how long. But that has to be for a Hindi language film.
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I don't tweet because I don't need another creative venue. I don't need another form for self-expression. I don't need another way to get my thoughts out to people. I have one. I'm good.
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The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.
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I have a brass bed that's very 'Bedknobs and Broomsticks.' I got it on eBay. It's from the early 1900s.
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Affairs go on, and all will take some shape or other, but it keeps one in hot water all the time.
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We are the mimics. Clouds are pedagogues.
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I prefer games with many goals.
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Europe must learn to live in and with the world, not to dominate it nor to assume it is superior or more virtuous.
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Since I'm always working, my best holiday memories are definitely when I can just go home and spend time with my family.
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Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.
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Don’t get distracted by the shiny object and if a crisis comes, execute on the fundamentals.
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I am a big fan of Neil DeGrasse Tyson. He's the voice of science and scientific thinking in the United States and the world. He's the most visible proponent of scientific thinking, and he's very unflinching about it. He knows that it's correct and vouches for it in a very intelligent and very firm way, which I really appreciate.
