Vernor Vinge Quotes
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I have an obsession with fashion - it's another form of expression for me - and I have a growing collection of vintage clothes and jewelry. Being able to play dress-up for my career has been a gift.
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Every generation comes with a unique athlete, I don't think anybody wants to be the next Nadia; they want to be themselves.
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I love wrestling, but to wrestle just one style for the rest of my life seems like it would really hold me down creatively.
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Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.
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The older I get, the more I realize the importance of maintaining an even temperament - not getting too emotional, focusing on the task at hand. You don't want to make a business deal based on your emotions.
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I have no sense of direction at all. Thank the Lord for my TomTom, otherwise I'd spend my whole life lost.
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I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.
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I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.
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I love Yves Saint Laurent and Giambattista Valli and Givenchy, and I get given quite a lot, but perhaps nothing is as wonderful as the white fake leather trench coat I got when I was 15.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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I guess that I'm primarily thought of as a rocker, largely because of 'Frankenstein' being such a heavy song - you know, it was really hard rock, almost a precursor of heavy metal and just the image of the synthesizer. I happened to be the first guy to get the idea of putting a strap on the keyboard.
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I personally don't even try to compare New York and L.A. To me, they are just way too different.
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I was halfway through a rough draft of 'The Sisters Brothers' when it came time to start the 'Terri' adaptation.
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The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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We can succeed only by concert. It is not, 'Can any of us imagine better,' but, 'Can we all do better?'
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I hate Valentine's day. It is a day for nothing but disappointment.
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I don't promise to forget the mystery, but I know I'll have a marvelous time.
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I think it would be so much fun to be in the White House.
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'Mad Men' was really my first television role, and it never feels like TV to me. It's done at such a high level.
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It's important to ask yourself, How am I useful to others? What do people want from me? That may very well reveal what you are here for.
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When you're your parents' one shot at a genetic legacy, you may get to attend all the best schools, wear all the best clothes and eat all the best foods - at least relative to children in multiple-sibling households. But you also wind up with an overweening sense of your own importance.
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Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever.
