Bill Vaughan Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“The great soul that sits on the throne of the universe is not, never was, and never will be, in a hurry.”
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“An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.”
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“People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong.”
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“A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.”
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“It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.”
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“The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine.”
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“We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.”
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“It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts.”
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“As a nation we are dedicated to keeping physically fit - and parking as close to the stadium as possible.”
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“Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.”
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“Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed.”
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“A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.”
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“My father asserted that there was no better place to bring up a family than in a rural environment.... There's something about getting up at 5 a.m., feeding the stock and chickens, and milking a couple of cows before breakfast that gives you a lifelong respect for the price of butter and eggs.”
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“Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.”
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“Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.”
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“Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.”
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“If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.”
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“A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.”
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“The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them.”
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“I'd always been a great fan of George Orwell.”
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“I've always been struck by how unsuspicious people are in general, if you tell them what you're about.”
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“Nor all America can claim him now: Forevermore he is Mankind's and God's.”
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“Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.”
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“There is a huge antipathy in England between the north and the south, the working class and the owning class.”
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“But at the same time I went down into the mines with working miners who are still young men, younger than I am, who are aware that their working life is coming to an end and they feel suddenly cut off.”
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“Most people - and particularly people whose lives have nothing to do with books at all - are intrigued by the idea that somebody wants to listen to them and get it right.”
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“What's wonderful is to read the different translations - some done in 1600 and some in 1900 - of the same passage. It's fascinating to watch the same tale repeated in such a different way by two different centuries.”
-- Bill VaughanSource : "It's ALMOST, MAINE for John Cariani!!!". Interview with TJ Fitzgerald, www.broadwayworld.com. January 4, 2006.
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“The government is shutting down the coal industry, they say it's cheaper to draw nuclear power off the French grid and cheaper to buy coal from Colombia.”
-- Bill Vaughan
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