Vernor Vinge Quotes
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What is art? Art talks about life; it's subversive.
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Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.
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When a crime is committed, only the victim and the victim's close circle experience the event as pain, terror, death. To people hearing or reading about it, crime is a metaphor, a symbol of the ancient battles fought every day: evil versus good, chaos versus order.
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Even under Obamacare, there are people that get subsidized insurance. But that has a $6,000 deductible. What do you think they do with that $6,000 deductible? They are still a nonpayer.
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There is no compromise when it comes to corruption. You have to fight it.
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The composition of the primary is so different than when I was first elected governor in 1978.
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One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
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The 21st Century has begun as an era of uncertainty, with a heightened focus on security and public safety.
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I still have in me the same awareness when I was 12 and chubby and a girl was spitting in my face. I'm the same person.
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The art world is a very prissy little thing over in the corner, while the major cultural forces are being determined by techno science.
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Middle English is an exciting field - almost uncharted, I begin to think, because as soon as one turns detailed personal attention on to any little corner of it, the received notions and ideas seem to crumple up and fall to pieces - as far as language goes, at any rate.
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My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor.
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I'm really terrible with small children; they're small, noisy, irritating, damp and soggy.
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We made more money feeding molasses, urea, and corn cobs to cattle than we ever did feeding dent corn.
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I love the smell of Burger King when I ride past, but sometimes I have to avoid it.
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Like the winds that we come we know not whence and blow whither soever they list, the forces of society are derived from an obscure and distant origin. They arise before the date of philosophy, from the instincts, not the speculations of men.
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In the Jewish tradition, there is at the same time Jerusalem in the heavens and Jerusalem on the ground. Jerusalem is a living city, but also the heart, the soul of the Jewish people and the state of Israel.
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For me, the idea of curating can be expanded. Curating science, curating art, music and theater and performance and not only bring those things into art but bring art into those areas.
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If I had any humility I would be perfect.
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I grant an ugly woman is a blot on the fair face of creation; but as to the gentleman, let them be solicitous to possess only strength and valour: let their motto be:Hunt, shoot, and fight: the rest is not worth a flip.
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If you had asked people in 1929, 'Here is what is about to happen. How much would you pay to avoid the Great Depression from occurring?' The answer is they would have paid a lot. They would have borrowed money if it could be used to prevent the Great Depression.
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"Oh, you want too much!" she cried to Gatsby. "I love you now - isn't that enough? I can't help what's past." She began to sob helplessly. "I did love him once-but I loved you too."
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Things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right.
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Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.
