Vivienne Ming Quotes
When I went back to finish my undergrad, after a long and ignoble absence, my very first class was Intro to C for Cognitive Modeling. Unlike any educational experience before, I aced the class.
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I was unbelievably lucky.
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I'm very privy to the way bookstores work, and I think a lot about the ecosystem that my books have been published in. I think it's great to be aware of how publishing works.
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Our party never tolerated those who use violence for political ends. Our leaders lost their lives standing against terrorism.
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The regime is afraid of the people because it knows that free and fair elections will bring about its end.
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I'm a good guy. I love playing bad guys, but good guys that have a good thing going on, I like that, too. I don't like passive good guys.
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Within Internet users, you have a big chunk of people who can convert to online shopping.
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Men fall in love with their eyes - they like what they see - and women fall in love with their ears - they like what they hear!
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Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
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I love Saturday nights with my best friend and a big bowl of pasta, wanting a good scare, something that will say, 'Listen, your life is not as bad as this. Your life can be so much worse.'
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Each new generation needs to commit again to the foundations of our peaceful coexistence.
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Most believers struggle to really believe in the supernatural as a meaningful, deterministic reality except during moments when they are drawn to it, perhaps during a worship service or while reading a novel like 'Adam.' Being drawn to this truth is the first step to living a life in accordance to this truth.
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We walk together, we move together, we think together, we resolve together, and together we take this country forward.
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In Latin America, people want you to write beautiful melodies and words. But there are also songs that do well because they show the reality of life.
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I don't do the whole, 'Put my name on it, make me famous' thing.
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I'm an obsessive. When I get a problem, a question in my mind, it can take me over.
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I'm a Nintendo geek, so I'm a pretty big Nintendo fan.
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I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.
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To see the gods dispelled in mid-air and dissolve like clouds is one of the great human experiences. It is not as if they had gone over the horizon to disappear for a time; nor as if they had been overcome by other gods of greater power and profounder knowledge. It is simply that they came to nothing.
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The question I am most often asked is how do I find my ideas? The answer is I don't. Ideas find me. A character in history will suddenly step right out of the past and demand a book. Generally, people don't bother to speak to me unless there's a good chance that I'll take them on.
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Sometimes, if you really don't know how you feel about a topic, reading how both sides argue it can help.
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No one knows my gender more than I do. You do not know my gender better than I do. A doctor doesn't know it better than I do. My parents don't know it better than I do. No one experiences my gender in the way that I experience it.
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We are great believers in the idea that the Internet can help bring justice, but justice varies from place to place across the world.
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There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.
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When I went back to finish my undergrad, after a long and ignoble absence, my very first class was Intro to C for Cognitive Modeling. Unlike any educational experience before, I aced the class.
