Vernor Vinge Quotes
Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.
Vernor Vinge
Quotes to Explore
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The 21st Century has begun as an era of uncertainty, with a heightened focus on security and public safety.
Gavin Newsom
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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.
Zooey Deschanel
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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.
Natalie Jeremijenko
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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.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor.
Victoria Pratt
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We made more money feeding molasses, urea, and corn cobs to cattle than we ever did feeding dent corn.
Orville Redenbacher
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I love the smell of Burger King when I ride past, but sometimes I have to avoid it.
LaMarr Woodley
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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.
Adam Ferguson
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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.
Yitzhak Rabin
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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.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
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I joke that my niche in Hollywood has been naked foreigners.
Hank Azaria
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The series of photographic operations, developing, washing, final drying, takes about quarter of an hour.
Gabriel Lippmann
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The foreigners come out here always to teach, whereas they had much better learn, for, in everything but wits and knowledge, the Arab is generally the better man of the two.
T. E. Lawrence
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The first thing they gave me at 'Sports Illustrated' was a first-class air card. 'And oh, by the way, there's the petty cash drawer,' they told me. 'Take a few thousand dollars for expenses.'
Dan Jenkins
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I'm very curious to know what it's like, death - I always say to my wife, 'I wonder if we'll have the 'New York Times' when we're dead.'
R. J. Cutler
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I can't form a total picture of things. Because I'm not her.
Frances Conroy
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I think music has the power to transform people, and in doing so, it has the power to transform situations - some large and some small.
Joan Baez
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Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.
Vernor Vinge
