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Bill Vaughan Quotes

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Age Youth Year You Late New

I don't do guilt, but if I were to squint in that direction, it's probably enjoying simple computer games like Zuma. But I regard such things as part of my hand-eye coordination workout.

Simple Direction Guilt Games Things

The meaning of life. The wasted years of life. The poor choices of life. God answers the mess of life with one word: 'grace.'

Life God Grace Choices Meaning Poor

A highly developed stock exchange cannot be a club for the cult of ethics.

Ethics Club Cannot Cult Exchange

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Life My Life I Have Learned Know

Yeah, for some reason parrots have to bite me. That's their job. I don't know why that is. They've nearly torn my nose off. I've had some really bad parrot bites.

Job Me Bad Know Why Reason

I think I look really weird with short hair. So I figured if I've got a mustache, I think it looks less creepy with long hair. Like a wild look.

Hair Think Weird Short Long Look

No one can compare us to the apartheid regime. It's not like in South Africa between the blacks and the whites who belong to the same nation, or in Berlin where you find parents living on the eastern side and their children in the western side.

Children Parents You Find Living

Lana Turner taught me how to kiss on the set of the movie 'Diane' in the early Fifties.

Kiss Me Early Fifties Set Movie

Blacks commit murder eight times more per capita than any other group in our society. If I had put all of my police officers on Park Avenue and none in Harlem, thousands and thousands more blacks would've been killed during the eight years that I was mayor.

Police Society Police Officers Group

I've got my interests and my life experiences as I'm putting lyrics together. And if you start looking at patterns, you start thinking, 'Well, what am I really singing about here?' A lot of it seems to be a battle for some freedom against oppressive forces. That seems to be a theme in a lot of the albums I've done.

Life Freedom Together Singing Start

Where we come from in America no longer signifies. It's where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us who we are.

Joyce Carol Oates

America Go Where Us Get Come

I'm a poor person who has money.

Jonathan Franzen

Money Person Poor Who

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