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.
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I love romantic comedies, or romantic dramas - basically anything with love in it.
-
When budget cuts happen - which has been happening a lot in this country - after-school athletics and after-school music are some of the first things to go.
-
Everywhere your eye travels in your home, it should land on something that resonates with you.
-
Manhattan seems pretty developed, you know what I mean? Like, it has peaked in culture.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Going to a concert is so overwhelming and the energy is amazing.
-
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.
-
It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.
-
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.'
-
You're gifted to do something.
-
Weapons of mass destruction violate more than individual lives - they cross international borders and jeopardize all people. They also drain resources that could be used instead for medicines, schools and other life-saving supplies. We must come together with even greater determination to prevent a WMD nightmare.
-
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.
-
There is no such thing as absolute proof. There is only evidence.
-
We manipulate fabric.
-
I saw science as being in harmony with humanity.
-
I never quite toed the line. I was a bit disruptive. All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.' And now, that's what I do for a living.
-
There's something about the alchemy of the show - the actors, the writers, the directors, the editors - that makes 'Parenthood' unique. You get so deeply embedded with these characters because you go through life with them, and that's our priority.
-
No one ever recognises me. Everyone says, 'You don't look like your pictures.'
-
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.
