Bill Vaughan Quotes

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.

Bill Vaughan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: journalist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 8, 1915 - February 25, 1977

Topics

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Funny is the world I live in. You're funny, I'm interested. You're not funny, I'm not interested.

Jerry Seinfeld

FunnyLiveWorldYouNot Interested

Characters who are on screen from start to finish are not necessarily the ones who have the greatest impact.

Jeanne Moreau

StartImpactFinishScreenGreatest

It feels like an easy sum to gauge the balance between forests and, say, the proliferating free newspapers that litter our public transport. This noxious combination of words and paper represents a clear-cut crime against the biosphere.

Tristram Stuart

WordsBalanceFreeEasySayCrime

I'm from Asia. You can hear it in my voice, and you can see it in my face, and that's primarily my perspective.

Ronny Chieng

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I grew up in San Francisco and moved to L.A. about 20 years ago, and now my main home is in Hollywood.

Roman Coppola

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I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and you put the work and time into it. I think your mind really controls everything.

Michael Phelps

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I don't think I'm morbid by nature. Serious writers have always written about serious subjects. Lighthearted material doesn't appeal to me, and I don't read it. I think I'm a realist, with a realistic sensibility of history and the tragedy of history.

Joyce Carol Oates

NatureHistoryMeThinkTragedy

Snoop Dogg is hilarious. T.I. is really funny. Who else? 50 Cent is hilarious. Jay-Z is funny. I've met him, but he's funny in interviews. He was funny when I saw him, too. Ludacris is funny. Everybody is. Rappers are funny, a lot of them.

Jay Pharoah

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There is only one Mariano Rivera. There won't be another person who will come along and do what he did. No one does it like him. It was an honor to catch him and play alongside him for as long as I did.

Jorge Posada

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I'm tough, and you know what? New Yorkers deserve that. They work head, they fight it out, they slug it out. And they deserve a mayor or a speaker who's going to do the same.

Christine Quinn

WorkFightToughYouNewKnow

We still have not been able to move into those positions in our country that are really directing traffic among that 1 percent, and that's where women have to break through.

Claire McCaskill

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I knew going in that being a single parent would be one of the toughest jobs I'd ever have. I'd been a talk-show host, actor, comic, and on and on, but this gig was going to be my defining moment.

Arsenio Hall

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