Vernor Vinge Quotes
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If someone is sad, they put on a song, or if someone wants to rock out, and they want to get into a good mood, they put on music. Just being able to be a part of something like that I feel like was my ultimate push to do music.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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So many boys and girls talk the same way, listen to the same music, look the same. If I'm out, I'll notice the person who looks different before I notice the person who's, 'really hot.'
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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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The public's nerves are raw and edgy. You have to be discreet and understanding about the films you are showing.
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Christianity has stayed stable, as it must do. The doctrines don't change. The understanding of what it means to walk with God doesn't change. The reality of worship doesn't change, not at heart, anyway. So Christianity appears to be stuck.
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A Tea Party tidal wave is coming.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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So long as the Zulu people are here, clearly I will still have a role to play in this country.
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I don't think I have a black-hat image.
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I started to realize I wasn't like every other boy.
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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I'd like to sell out worldwide stadium tours. That'd be something. Or to have sixty number ones on Billboard.
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The Longs event was the first LPGA event that I played in 8 years ago.
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You know sometimes it's not the bigger roles that give you the most satisfaction, yeah?
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Sometimes people talk about music, whether blogs or magazines, in a strange way where it doesn't seem like they're actually listening to it.
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A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.
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What can you say about a man who leaps from a helicopter over Manhattan without a parachute in the hope that by increasing his heart rate he'll transform into an iridescent lime-green behemoth so he can take on an even bigger behemoth? That he knows he's living in a computer-generated universe in which gravity is a feeble suggestion and nothing is remotely at stake, and that when he hits the ground he'll be replaced by a special effect. The Incredible Hulk is weightless-as disposable as an Xbox game.
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One heart is not connected to another through harmony alone. They are, instead, linked deeply through their wounds.
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Life should not be estimated exclusively by the standard of dollars and cents.
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Karma chameleon: we come and go, we come and go.
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The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched.
