Vernor Vinge Quotes
Sometimes the biggest disasters aren’t noticed at all-no one’s around to write horror stories.
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I want to work with great directors and try not to put too much pressure on myself and just read things for the story and recognize when I'm drawn to something for the right reasons and try to maintain some sanity.
Rachel McAdams
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The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.
Lao Tzu
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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
W. H. Auden
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I'm not afraid of turning 80 and I have lots of things to do. I don't have time for dying.
Ingvar Kamprad
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Republicans in Congress boosted the economy by cutting taxes and ending programs that don't work.
Zach Wamp
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When I go to Indian reservations in the West, and especially to the Pine Ridge Reservation, I sometimes feel unsure where to put my foot when I open the car door. The very ground is different from where I usually stand. There are fewer curbs, fewer sidewalks, and almost no street signs, mailboxes, or leashed dogs.
Ian Frazier
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I've been giving back since I was a teen, handing out turkeys at Thanksgiving and handing out toys at toys drives for Christmas. It's very important to give back as a youth. It's as simple as helping an old lady across the street or giving up your seat on the bus for someone who is pregnant.
Queen Latifah
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With twelve horse power at our command, we considered that we could permit the weight of the machine with operator to rise to 750 or 800 pounds, and still have as much surplus power as we had originally allowed for in the first estimate of 550 pounds.
Orville Wright
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The only interesting thing that can happen in a Swiss bedroom is suffocation by feather mattress.
Dalton Trumbo
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The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
Lao Tzu
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Fear can make all of us do the wrong things sometimes.
Vanessa Paradis
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The great thing I think when you do independents is that people are really there for the same reason. They're not there because they got a lot of money and they want to just go home and get it over with. They're there because they believe in the script or the director or the cast or whatever it is, and they want to make it work.
Famke Janssen
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Dylan, myself and my father were in a two hour movie called The Sand Kings, which started off the Outer Limits series. It was sort of the two hour pilot movie.
Beau Bridges
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I think it's difficult to be No. 1. 'There's too much attention, too much expectation from other people.
Marat Safin
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I'm the most competitive person you'll ever meet.
Kaley Cuoco
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As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical facts which are true but unknowable.
Abraham Robinson
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It was easy to share when there was enough, even barely enough, to go round. But when there was not enough? Then force entered in; might making right; power, and its tool, violence, and its most devoted ally, the averted eye.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Fortunately, there is more to life than death. There is for one thing, fiction. A thousand thousand characters to be sent marching out into the world to divert time from its forward gallop to the terrible horizon.
Fay Weldon
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For my part, he was God's candidate.
Basil Hume
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I live in the crowd of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.
Samuel Johnson
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Speech is my hammer bang the world into shape now let it fall - HUNGH
Yasiin Bey Black Star
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I hate it when people are impolite to waiters or to the valet or the guy in the supermarket. There's no need for that; it doesn't cost anything to be polite.
Ashley Madekwe
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There are certain guys in the league that get their rhythm off their dribble.
Draymond Green
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Sometimes the biggest disasters aren’t noticed at all-no one’s around to write horror stories.
Vernor Vinge