Vernor Vinge Quotes
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Seventy years old! How did that happen? I was part of the generation that wasn't going to die.
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Romeo Must Die came at the right time. It was the right vehicle for me.
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Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.
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For thousands of years, we did have death surrounding us, and we did have people die in the home. You would take care of your own end. You would do ritual processes, and you would be involved in it, and that's been taken away in the Western world.
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To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
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It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die.
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The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.
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Old habits die hard. I don't like spending money willy-nilly.
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People die because they find living too painful.
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Live fast, die young.
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I was the big, bossy older sister, full of enthusiasms, mad fantasies, desperate urges to be famous, and anxious to be a saint - a settled sort of saint, not one who might have to suffer or die for her faith.
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When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing to do is die at once.
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I have my website, The Ruckus, which is an Internet site, similar to the Funny or Die format, where people post funny videos. I get a chance to rate their videos; they get a chance to blog and kick it with me.
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I wanted to be an actor when I saw the movie 'Die Hard.' I saw Bruce Willis shooting guns and blowing stuff up, and I thought, 'I wanna do that.' It really had nothing to do with acting; I just wanted a job that allowed me to do fun, bigger-than-life stuff.
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When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball, I can only marvel at the many black players who stuck it out for years in the Jim Crow leagues because they had nowhere else to go.
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I'll be making music 'til the day I die. I've done all kinds of stuff, and more is coming.
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To retire is to begin to die.
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Only the young die good.
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It is only in sleep that true imagination ever stirs within us. Awake, we never imagine anything; we merely alter, vary, or transpose. We give another twist to the kaleidoscope of the things we see around us, and obtain another pattern; but not one of us has ever added one tiniest piece of new glass to the toy.
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I thought, can you think of any really good reason not to do it? Except that, oh, I'm so shy, or oh, my private life, or oh, are they going to find out how boring I am? You know? And that was the only reason now, in a sense, not to do television. Because it certainly is a method of expression, which has to be accepted as these things come along.
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Wodehouse is very interesting. There must be all kinds of darknesses in that man's life.
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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.
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'Poor humans; they will all die.''Poor us; we will not.'
