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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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.
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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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Cussing ain't for everybody.
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My dad's funny. He's laid back and a cool guy.
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It's hard to say this about a guy like Eddie Van Halen, one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived, but he's really limited to a style and they're locked into it.
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My heart revolts against the spectre of Almighty indifferent to the pain of sentient being. My conscience rebels against the injustice, the cruelty, the inequality that surrounds me on every side. But believe in man, in man’s redeeming power, in man’s remoulding energy, in man’s approaching triumph through knowledge, love and work.
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Every Christmas, all I ever wanted was Playskool instruments. It was my entire life. And then by the time I was 6 or 7 years old, it became, 'Now I'm going to force my entire family to watch me perform all these rock songs.'
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I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image.
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I have seen so many bands and musicians fade away, especially the ones in my early days that treated me and my bands with contempt for no other reason than that they were headlining the show, not all though, with great exceptions such as Slade and Vinegar Joe.
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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.
