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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There are men of the East, he said, who are the East. There are men of a province who are that province. There are men of a valley who are that valley.
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I’m a firm believer that in-depth subjects can be better handled in a fantasy setting. … Let’s face it, traveling to some far off land is a terrific way to break the mold, to do something different. Isn’t that why we go on vacations?
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Whatever your image is, it's probably not you, but it affords you the freedom to live up to it.
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I'm making out with a dead girl in my dreams. I'm screwing women I have no business screwing. I'm pushing away the one person who actually gives a damn about me. It's like the Bermuda Triangle of heartache and I'm sinking fast.
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'Poor humans; they will all die.''Poor us; we will not.'
