Bill Vaughan Quotes - Page 9

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• We pursue that which retreats from us.

  Bill Vaughan

  Desire, Retreat, Pursue

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• Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person; if her face is so shocking that she must in some degree be conscious of it, her figure and her air, she trusts, make ample amends for it.

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  Air, Degrees, Ugly

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• The sinner will not confess, nor will the priest receive his confession, if the veil of secrecy is removed.

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  Veils, Confession, Secrecy

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• It may be that these loan arrangements conform to the letter of the law, but they do not conform to the spirit of the law and to the principle of transparency on which it is based.

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  Law, Letters, May

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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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  Wise, Book, Angel

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• There is no Past, so long as Books shall live!

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  Book, Past, Long

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• Had but my deeds been like my words, ah, then I had been numbered too with holy men.

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  Men, Deeds, Holy

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• There must be some great truth underlying the instinct for worship.

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  Worship, Instinct

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• The surest way of making a dupe is to let your victim suppose you are his.

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  Deceit, Way, Dupes

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• What we need to envision the future, ... stop thinking about the present and saying, 'Let's put a Band-Aid here.

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  Thinking, Needs, Band

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• I am saying that the recent activities by Turkey's Ministry of Agriculture, particularly the culling and communication work, is good.

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  Communication, Turkeys, Agriculture

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• How men hate waiting while their wives shop for clothes and trinkets; how women hate waiting, often for much of their lives, while their husbands shop for fame and glory.

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  Husband, Hate, Men

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• Every time you look at a house in Los Angeles, the real-estate agent will tell you that someone famous once lived there. It always seemed irrelevant to me: Does a property gain value just because Alfred Hitchcock used to eat breakfast there?

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  Real, House, Doe

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• One learned gentleman, "a sage grave man," Talk'd of the Ghost in Hamlet, "sheath'd in steel"— His well-read friend, who next to speak began, Said, "That was poetry, and nothing real;" A third, of more extensive learning, ran To Sir George Villiers' Ghost, and Mrs. Veal; Of sheeted Spectres spoke with shorten'd breath, And thrice he quoted Drelincourt on Death.

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  Real, Men, Gentleman

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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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  Suicide, Nuts, Bridges

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• Yes, well I do have plenty of clothes, jewels and money. However I don't ask for money for myself but if some one gives me money I take it and put it in The Eva Peron Foundation which gives huge amounts of money to the poor and helps to build hospitals , schools and old peoples' homes .

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  Home, School, Jewels

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• Flattery, though a base coin, is the necessary pocket money at court; where, by custom and consent, it has obtained such a currency that it is no longer a fraudulent, but a legal payment.

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  Pockets, Coins, Flattery

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• I don't care a damn for your loyal service when you think I am right; when I really want it most is when you think I am wrong.

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  Commitment, Thinking, Care

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• Journalism, like history, has no therapeutic value; it is better able to diagnose than to cure, and it provides society with a primitive means of psychoanalysis that allows the patient to judge the distance between fantasy and reality.

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  Distance, Mean, Reality

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• No one can bring to God what you can.

  Bill Vaughan

  Uniqueness

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• As the last drops fell from the glass to my tongue, I wondered - only for an instant - what perhaps I'd never know. What would it taste like, what would it feel like, if that liquid sliding down my throat was not champagne. But the elixir of life. Katheine Neville.

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  Glasses, Liquid, Lasts

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• The Universe knows itself and expands itself through me.

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  Knows, Universe

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• I think second place is always the most difficult one. It's not a nice feeling.

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  Nice, Thinking, Feelings

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• The spider is the chamberlain in the Palace of the Caesars The owl is the trumpeter on the battlements of Afrasiyah.

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  Owl, Spiders, Palaces

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• The best that can be said of you is that you got saved.

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  Salvation, Said, Saved

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