Bill Vaughan quotes
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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.”
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“Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four pages of which was devoted to the dress of the working class.”
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“I never thought I would just be doing Arkady books.”
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“All books grow homilies by time; they are Temples, at once, and Landmarks.”
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“There is no Past, so long as Books shall live!”
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“Know, he that foretells his own calamity, and makes events before they come, twice over, doth endure the pains of evil destiny.”
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“How wisely fate ordain'd for human kind Calamity! which is the perfect glass, Wherein we truly see and know ourselves.”
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“I would say the damage here is much more [than the tsunami], the magnitude of the calamity here is much more”
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“In a tournament, even though there are team scores, it's calculated and it's a lot more individual. There is more honor to say you're not just better than the opposing schools' wrestler, you're the best wrestler in your weight class. Plus there are lot more awards to win in a tournament.”
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“We deserve this payment by all stretches of how one would calculate it.”
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“It is foolish to think that we will enter heaven without entering into ourselves.”
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“Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like 'excuse me', and other such simple courtesies.”
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“I feel very bad about getting things wrong.”
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“The Wise (Minstrel or Sage,) out of their books are clay; But in their books, as from their graves they rise. Angels--that, side by side, upon our way, Walk with and warn us!”
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“Winter does adversely affect [the roads] and our roads have been let go, so they're more and more porous. We're going to have to put more and more emphasis on permanent patch and maintenance, so I expect a great deal of roads breaking up in the spring.”
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“That game gave us a lot of confidence and the fans something to cheer for.”
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“It is a game of chess with this city. We'll have to see how it is going to play out. The city goes back and forth trying to figure out what programs to cut and what they have funding for. What I would love to see is for the city to step up and run the rink 10 months out of the year so kids can play in the summer and we can have camps here in Glenwood.”
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“He had a passion for cricket right from his childhood and liked nothing else but playing with the bat and the ball. I wanted him to study hard and get into a government service. But, he wanted to do something in cricket and earn a name for himself.”
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“The familiar childhood admonition of 'counting to 10' before taking action works because it emphasizes the two key elements of anger management -- time and distraction.”
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“The message was, the choices you make can have bad consequences. Everyone has the power of choice. Just like this kid had the power of choice to steal my car.”
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“The committee has an obligation to give you a choice. The members have the obligation and the right to make that choice.”
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“Kids are not driving themselves to McDonalds. It's not about kids and their choices. It's about parents and their choices.”
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“In my view there are basically two types of weddings. There is the wedding that is based on law, and there is the wedding that is based on Christ and based on grace. We felt that those who have been married by the law, they would like to have that special privilege and benefit by being married by the church.”
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“There is a major disaster when a person allows some success to become a stopping place rather than a way station on to a larger goal. It often happens that an early success is a greater moral hazard than an early failure.”
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“Insofar as theology is an attempt to define and clarify intellectual positions, it is apt to lead to discussion, to differences of opinion, even to controversy, and hence to be divisive. And this has had a strong tendency to dampen serious discussion of theological issues in most groups, and hence to strengthen the general anti-intellectual bias...”
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“Christmas turns things tail-end foremost. The day and the spirit of Christmas rearrange the world parade. As the world arranges it, usually there come first in importance -- leading the parade with a big blare of a band -- the Big Shots. Frequently they are also the Stuffed Shirts. That's the first of the parade. Then at the tail end, as of little importance, trudge the weary, the poor, the lame, the halt, and the blind. But in the Christmas spirit, the procession is turned around. Those at the tail end are put first in the arrangement of the Child of Christmas.”
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“There are people in many other states who are cheering us.”
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“Were the Inhabitants of Italy charming as their Country, all other Regions would be depopulated I think.”
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“The mind of a wise man is the safest custody of secrets; cheerfulness is the key to friendship; patience and forbearance will conceal many defects.”
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“If all other risk factors are normal, and you exercise moderately, your risk of having high CRP is one in 2000, .. A person who is a little overweight, with blood fats and cholesterol a little elevated, maybe with a little bit of high blood pressure -- we didn't used to think that having several of these little risk factors were a big deal. But it is. These little risk factors add up in a way that is worse for you than one big risk factor.”
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“What Strauss is going through drives you nuts. If you care about your batting - which I'm sure he does - he will feel like jumping off a bridge and committing suicide”
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“It sounds bad, but they don't care about your age if you're famous.”
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“I heard that [Clarkson] said some petty things about someone I care deeply about, so I just made some petty remarks 'cause I'm a petty guy.”
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“Three or four plays cause the momentum to shift. We turned it over and gave Baylor a cheap score.”
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“We've found some things that are suspicious in nature, and we're going to err on the side of caution.”
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“These are days you'll remember. If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony, remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.”
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“I don't think other people in the world would share the view there is mounting chaos.”
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“SAP is becoming the standard for business software. Oracle is in a state of chaos.”
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“We tried to be as ready and solid as we could be, ... Filmmaking is always some form of chaos, and to what extent you're able to harness the chaos.”
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“Life is about balance too much excess is chaos.”
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“It may be asserted without scruple, that no otherclass of dependants have had their character so entirely distorted from its natural proportions by their relations with their masters.”
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“Worship your heroes from afar; contact withers them.”
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“In addition to wreaking havoc on our bodies, anger close our inner door, making us feel isolated and distrustful, hindering communication.”
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“Grief and constant anxiety kill nearly as many women as men die on the battlefield.”
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“My forces are not enfeebled, I find no decay in my strength; my provisions are not cut off, I find no abhorring in mine appetite; my counsels are not corrupted nor infatuated, I find no false apprehensions to work upon mine understanding; and yet they see that invisibly, and I feel that insensibly, the disease prevails.”
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“Let no one expect anything of certainty from astronomy, lest if anyone take as true that which has been constructed for another use, he go away... a bigger fool than when he came to it.”
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“The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England.”
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“He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite. - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton”
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“What the result means is that the Franco-German axis is in serious trouble. It's the end of a phase which began in 2002.”
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“There's one word that describes baseball - You never know.”
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“It is possible that our race may be an accident, in a meaningless universe, living its brief life uncared for, on this dark, cooling star”
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“The healthy life is hardly one marked by an absence of crises. In fact, an individual's psychological health is distinguished by how early he or she can meet crisis.”
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“All the aftermath that so frequently follows in the wake of war still confront the nation, and we now, as ever before, must hold fast to the ancient landmarks and see to it that all of these plagues that threaten so mightily shall be rendered harmless.”
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“I retire to make way for an abler man. In my four years as attorney general I have aged about ten years, but when I have get back to the practice of law, I hope to show those lawyers that I still have some vitality left.”
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“Live constructively and live optimistically.”
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“Democracy in Yemen did not stop, instead it is in a continuous development, there is no other way to follow rather than democracy, it is our national way for building up our country, it was not imposed on us by others.”
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“Iraq may get peace and stability through restoring it's sovereignty under participation of all Iraqi factions and sectarian groups, who must rebuild a new democratic, free and independent Iraq.”
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“The US has not imposed democracy in Yemen, its people have.”
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“United States is a great Country and has its effective role on the international arena, so we have to boost our relations with it, in order to achieve peace and stability in our region and the world.”
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“When a woman talks, she just wants to be heard.”
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“The happiest and most contented people are those who each day perform to make the best of their abilities.”
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“The only difference between your abilities and others is the ability to put yourself in their shoes and actually try.”
-- Bill VaughanSource : Ryan Blair (2011). “Nothing to Lose, Everything to Gain: How I Went from Gang Member to Multimillionaire Entrepreneur”, p.41, Penguin
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“Above all, we must abolish hope in the heart of man. A calm despair, without angry convulsions, without reproaches to Heaven, is the essence of wisdom.”
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