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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It seems as if life and hope must cease together.
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The weakness of human reason appears more evidently in those who know it not than in those who know it.
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It's a mistake to think that once you're done with school you need never learn anything new.
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It was all about flying round the world, working hard, being on the cover of Vogue, making money. It wasn't fun. It was exhausting, but I was young and convinced I knew best.
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Many later commented on the fact that large numbers of those engaged in the most senseless acts of destruction were left well alone by cops, indeed people dressed as Black Block members were seen freely making their way across police lines and talking to cops.
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How to explain? How to describe? Even the omniscient viewpoint quails.
