Joan D. Vinge Quotes
The contradictions are what make human behavior so maddening and yet so fascinating, all at the same time.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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Science is an international enterprise where discoveries in one part of the world are useful in other parts.
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If you just storyboard something, you've already planned it, and you're stuck in the limitations of your imagination.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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I'm lucky enough to do what I like for work - not everyone's that fortunate.
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Modern theory is about objects lower than man; even stars, being common things, are lower than man.
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The history of business has shown that companies usually only regulate themselves if they're forced to by legislation, or out of self-interest - often in the shape of a marketable message that will help sell more products.
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In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
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The security and the future of Jordan is hand-in-hand with the future of the Palestinians and the Israelis.
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After the second and final time that I got hugely fat in my life and when I lost that weight six or seven years ago, I pretty much decided that I was going to stay in decent shape for the rest of my life.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.
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I thought of learning cinematography, so I assisted a cinematographer for an ad.
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I am not interested in producing fiction for Indian television at all, the reason being that I don't understand the medium. I can be a judge or a host; I can do that as an individual. But to produce TV content, you have to know the game.
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E. Klimov's 'Come and See,' about partisans fighting the Germans in Byelorussia, is the greatest anti-war film ever made.
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I would be happy if people just called me an actor.
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The strips about the military do seem to provoke moving and thoughtful responses. It's nice when the strip resonates, but more importantly, I need to know when I'm getting something wrong. The last thing I want to do is contribute to the suffering that wounded warriors already endure.
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There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight.
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You are a black goddess when you come out the salon.
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We must recognize the chief characteristic of the modern era - a permanent state of what I call violent peace.
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I think the place to start is to recognize the individual's quality of incompleteness, of being an unfinished product. The vestiges of the past are brought into the present in one's consciousness, and a continual labor is necessary to eradicate them.
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I like musicals a lot. I think probably 'Jesus Christ Superstar' is my favorite. I love Andrew Lloyd Webber for the most part. It's rare that I'll find a musical that I don't like.
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The contradictions are what make human behavior so maddening and yet so fascinating, all at the same time.
