Joan D. Vinge Quotes
Perhaps the thing that makes humans truly unique on Earth is that we are never satisfied with our situation; maybe that is what's taken us so far.
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I'm an actor who wants to do great parts, and I've been very fortunate, for a long time, to get meaty roles, and sometimes some of them are meatier than others.
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We were descended from royalty.
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When I was in jail, I was a lot of people's favorite person. I practically ran the jail. I had more freedom than the police.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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There is something magical in seeing what you can do, what texture and tone and colour you can produce merely with a pen point and a bottle of ink.
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I really don't like going out anymore. I used to love it, but now it's not fun. I'd rather have friends come over and hot have to worry about crazy people taking pictures.
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I don't see myself as a diva at all.
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You wouldn't know it, but I'm no good at recognising people; I have face blindness.
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Homosexuals reject the process of healing because it's too painful and time-consuming.
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My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
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I like seeing advanced acrobatics, but I also like to see more than tumbling. It's important to combine the artistry of gymnastics with the tough skills. It's called artistic gymnastics. We should stand by the name.
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Any one who wants to live in peace and freedom will be to live by toil, demonstration of high levels of discipline and tolerance for one another.
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You can become a winner only if you are willing to walk over the edge.
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I think I was only divorced once, and the rest were annulments. Or, maybe not. I can't keep track actually, because it's not that important. I just am who I am.
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There's no social realism in 'Tyrannosaur.' It's not about the social landscape or the political landscape or any of that. It's just about human beings. I never made 'Tyrannosaur' in reference to anybody - I just made it because I had to make my own films.
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In South Africa, I feel I am a stranger, at best an animal.
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It's easy when you have suffered to feel the link with what others have gone through.
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People don't know that when there is something running in my mind, I start smiling. If I'm angry, I smile and blush.
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A street criminal can steal only what he can carry, but with a stroke of a pen, the dialing of a telephone or the pushing of a computer key, the white collar criminal can and does steal billions.
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You can do more good by being good than any other way.
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No matter how happy anyone is with their choices, I believe it's human nature to wonder about the path not taken.
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Whatever you are trying to achieve in life, it is essential that you surround yourself with people who believe that what you seek and what you believe in are not only possible but also very probable.
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I think Leon told Mo (76ers coach Maurice Cheeks) that they weren't inviting me.
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Perhaps the thing that makes humans truly unique on Earth is that we are never satisfied with our situation; maybe that is what's taken us so far.
