Joan D. Vinge Quotes
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The performance of international institutions will be symptomatic of the domestic political priorities of influential member states. International institutions don't really have a life and a mind of their own.
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I think we've learned that the S.B.A. plays a critical role in providing access and opportunity when the market is not providing that access. We help banks get that money out into the hands of important and viable businesses, particularly those owned by minorities, women, immigrants and veterans.
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At the U.N., I routinely encounter countries that do not want to impose sanctions or even to enforce those already on the books. The hard-line sanctions skeptics have their own self-interested reasons for opposing sanctions, but they ground their opposition in claims that America uses sanctions to inflict punishment for punishment's sake.
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Eclecticism - every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.
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My memories from my childhood are centered on my father's medical conditions alongside my constant desire to understand the principles of the nature around me.
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Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
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If you compromise in any kind of movement or any kind of wave of revolution, if you sort of play the game, things are gonna change far more slowly than you need them to.
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I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all.
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Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.
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One of the few times I saw my mother cry was when Lennon died, and the other time was when Elvis died.
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At its very best, the Western model speaks for itself. It's the model that put food on the table. It's the refrigerators. It put a man on the moon.
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When you do well in a movie that's seen as really great, you're revitalized for six weeks.
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The thing is, God has already seen every twist and turn of your life. He already knows what's in your heart. He already knows the decisions you've made. He's just waiting for you to call on Him and be honest with Him like Jonah was.
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Well, guys are better at mechanical stuff and women are better at emotional stuff.
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The luxury we have when we do a series is that we go through a long journey, and it keeps a lot of information and things to be revealed.
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One line I'd draw would be on raising the eligibility age for Social Security and Medicare. It sounds fair, since people are living longer. But it isn't. Lower income workers are the ones who find it hardest to keep working after 65. And they'll get penalized with lower benefits.
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He is well and truly head and shoulders No.1 in the world, there's no question of that.
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I wasn't perfect and didn't have it together. I felt alone. So through acting, I decided to be a shape shifter and with every role become the character instead of being myself. It meant about 10 years of no one knowing I was the same person in every movie.
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Openness is all, she thought. Truth was its own reward.
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I cannot help feeling there is something essentially wrong about love. Friends may quarrel or drift apart, close relations too, but there is not this pang, this pathos, this fatality which clings to love. Friendship never has that doomed look. Why, what is the matter? I have not stopped loving you, but because I cannot go on kissing your dim dear face, we must part, we must part.
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I'm more rooted in new plays and new writing.
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Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession.
