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 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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For me the rehearsal period is the part I most enjoy. It's the creating of the story.
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So I consider myself a dog person. Kind of. Had dogs when I was a kid, but my parents would never have dreamed of having them in the house.
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Which country in the world has the kind of talent India has in numbers?
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I think it's poignant and powerful, this idea that if someone knows your name, they have the ability to kind of hail you and make demands upon you.
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I have always heard that you need to give yourself a long time to unplug when you do a sabbatical. I unplugged so fast I was a little concerned that I was losing brain capacity.
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Stop trying to impress some art-school teacher with a stick up his butt whose opinions you never respected from the time you entered his class until you left it 10 years ago. Draw like you. (p. 27)
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What if you have failed in the past? So, at one time did every man we recognize as a towering success. They called it "temporary defeat.
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The contradictions are what make human behavior so maddening and yet so fascinating, all at the same time.
