Vernor Vinge Quotes
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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
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I naturally want to be provocative.
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Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste.
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I believe the question now is: who murdered my mother?
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Life is one long jubilee.
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Rather than a big figure, I guess you could say I'm more of an influential minority symbol.
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Mexican, Mediterranean, Italian, sushi, I love it all. Put it on a plate, and as long as I know what it is, I will eat it.
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What thoughts are to the individual, art is to the community as a whole. That's where you reflect on who you are, who you hope to be, what you've gone through, and where you hope to go.
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Even as a child, I found a way to survive.
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'Lost' is driving toward an ending, and that ending is: Are these people getting off this island? What is the nature of this island? What is going to happen to them? What is their ultimate fate? What is their ultimate destiny? Those questions need to get answered.
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That music and the lyrical aspects of Razorblade Romance is so personal to me that, now with me being grown up a bit and meeting new people and doing new things, it makes me look at the same things I was writing about back in the day through a different colored lens.
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I enjoy the freedom of the blank page.
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Fighting crime requires a partnership between the police and the community. And we all know that this partnership has been tested in Chicago. It is a problem that has festered in this city for decades.
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When I do my job, I dive into these characters and try to flush something out of myself into these characters, and hopefully that translates well.
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I don't want to be the center of attention. My posture has changed. I walk with my head down and shoulders slumped. Suddenly I carry myself as if I'm ashamed of something.
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I've worked very hard to become comfortable with how death works and why it happens. I now know that death isn't out to get me.
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Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I'm really not worth being called an artist at all.
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One of the things in Obamacare is that for the elderly, is every five years, you must have end-of-year counseling. Translation, 'suicide counseling.'
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I bow in reverence before the emotions of every melted heart....The more intense the delight in their presence, the more poignant the impression of their absence....When the tears of bereavement have had their natural flow, they lead us again to life and love's generous joy.
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I met Tiger Woods when he was younger. He's amazing - obviously technically, but his mental approach, too. He's really something.
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My people were divided about surrendering.
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We must often draw the comparison between time and eternity. This is the remedy of all our troubles. How small will the present moment appear when we enter that great ocean.
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I was married once--in San Francisco. I haven't seen her for many years. The great earthquake and fire in 1906 destroyed the marriage certificate. There's no legal proof. Which proves that earthquakes aren't all bad.
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How to explain? How to describe? Even the omniscient viewpoint quails.
