Joan D. Vinge Quotes
We are all born with a unique genetic blueprint, which lays out the basic characteristics of our personality as well as our physical health and appearance... And yet, we all know that life experiences do change us.
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It is essential to link enterprises on the basis of objective laws of a socialist economy and legal system.
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We have 200,000 kids a year who drop out of the French school system and have no hope. They become a drag on society.
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
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When you play for one run, that's usually all you get. I have nothing against the bunt in its place, but most of the time, that place is in the bottom of a long-forgotten closet.
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My life has been forged by middle class values: faith, hard work, deep respect for America and all that she stands for.
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I do hot yoga and TRX, a kind of suspension training.
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I want to play interesting women.
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You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.
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The history of the music industry is inevitably also the story of the development of technology. From the player piano to the vinyl disc, from reel-to-reel tape to the cassette, from the CD to the digital download, these formats and devices changed not only the way music was consumed, but the very way artists created it.
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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
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I'm a machine man, and I head a machine.
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As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.
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By rights you're a king. If I was you, I'd call for a new deal.
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Because women have been marginalised, they're more likely to behave like immigrants and continue to push themselves forward in order to avoid falling through the cracks, but I don't think a happy ending comes from matriarchy.
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To mature means to take responsibility for your life, to be on your own. Psychoanalysis fosters the infantile state by considering that the past is responsible for the illness.
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To sing a song is quite different than to write a poem. I'm not and never will be a novelist, but to write a novel is not the same thing as writing a play. There is a difference in form, but essentially what you're after is the same thing.
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I was burned out, and my wife and I were having our first kid, so I wanted to take some time off. In this business, if you take too long, the landscape changes. So the opportunities that were there when I decided to take a break weren't there when I came back.
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We have a network of contacts, where there are very few boards where we can't reach out to the CEO or key board members.
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I painted with acrylic paint, and the reason why I went to oil was mainly because I didn't control it. I was looking for the insecurity of it. I mean, I might have found another reason later, but at that moment, the reason was I was looking for the insecurity.
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We are all born with a unique genetic blueprint, which lays out the basic characteristics of our personality as well as our physical health and appearance... And yet, we all know that life experiences do change us.
