Vivienne Ming Quotes
Looking at where you went to school is a proxy; you assume, because someone went to a good school, therefore they must have the qualities you desire, even though that's not actually really true.
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I got a telegraph from my mother who said that my step-father had had a heart attack, come home and earn a living. So I went back to England and the only thing I knew to earn any cash was through hairdressing.
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Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
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What I've learned is that people have a desire to talk after the first line of reporters go away, and they are no longer speaking out of shock.
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Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take it any other way.
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I love romantic comedies, or romantic dramas - basically anything with love in it.
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Everywhere your eye travels in your home, it should land on something that resonates with you.
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Manhattan seems pretty developed, you know what I mean? Like, it has peaked in culture.
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I consider a CD or a comedy collection as a record of what I've been doing, and I try to wrap it up and start new material.
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I was never anorexic, so I was never that skinny. I was never bony-bony. But I remember thinking, I don't want to be this skinny.
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Going to a concert is so overwhelming and the energy is amazing.
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My favorite prayer is Footprints in the Sand. You know that prayer? I know the times that he carried me, you know? I kind of wore him out.
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It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.
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In 'The Founders,' his new book about top charter schools, Richard Whitmire traces both the 'revolution' these schools brought about in many American cities as well as a parallel phenomenon, 'the charter pushback campaigns.'
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Vietnam was the first time that Americans of different races had to depend on each other. In the Second World War, they were segregated; it was in Vietnam that American integration happened in the military - and it wasn't easy.
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There is no such thing as absolute proof. There is only evidence.
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I don't think I'm severely politically active. I care deeply, and I have my strong personal beliefs. I think America is dancing on thin ice. But I think it's bigger even than a political issue. I wonder about the evolution of the human race and spirit and what our goals and reasons for living are.
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I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. That's what I hate about all this technology.
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To love another is somethinglike prayer and it can't be planned, you just fallinto its arms because your belief undoes your disbelief.
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Leading economists have shown that by shrinking Texas, we can actually create more income for Texas in the long run.
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I'm nothing like Romeo in real life.
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I did my first apprenticeship when I was 15, then joined the union when I was 17. I worked every summer in high school and college.
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I embrace the imperfections and celebrate them.
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Looking at where you went to school is a proxy; you assume, because someone went to a good school, therefore they must have the qualities you desire, even though that's not actually really true.
