Vernor Vinge Quotes
The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.Vernor Vinge
Quotes to Explore
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The Saudi government's denial of basic rights to women is not only wrong, it hurts Saudi Arabia's economic development, modernization and prosperity.
Barbara Boxer -
I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
Paloma Picasso -
I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
I like beautiful clothing. I love Bergdorfs.
Jackee Harry -
Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
Brown Campbell -
I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
Eddie Murphy
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It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
Zoe Saldana -
Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
Balthasar Klossowski de Rola -
Act because you love to act.
Mae Whitman -
I was doing things that weren't good for me. So I checked into the Churchill Priory clinic. It was the best thing I've done for ages.
Kate Moss -
Achievement results from work realizing ambition.
Adam Ant Adam and the Ants -
People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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'Blood Meridian' was without question the novel that made me want to become a writer.
Rachel Kushner -
I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit.
Laura Dern -
Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.
Karel Capek -
I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
Basically, I tend to see the world differently to other people, and I write books and stories to alter the imagination of people so that they also see the world in a different way.
Ian Watson -
It's easy for people to strike if they're not working on a regular basis.
Kate Flannery
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But nothing beats a Woody Allen film on a Sunday night, with a glass of wine and some leftovers.
Kate Fleetwood -
Most of my avant garde fashion is saved for my videos and for the stage. In real life, I tend towards a classy, black Goth look. I love black, a few sparkles, false eyelashes and boots. But when I perform, I love fantasy and props.
Jane Badler -
Social media has changed the world forever. We're not going to go backwards. People are not going to accept being poor, accept being excluded anymore.
Jim Yong Kim -
The different bodies of my work end themselves when there's no more discovery to be had.
Dan Colen -
The breadth of work that's possible is wider and deeper for someone who looks like me in the States than it is in the U.K.
Lennie James -
The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.
Vernor Vinge