Vivienne Ming Quotes

Human behavior is an enormously complex set of things, and that mixture of underlying things is different for different people, so it's not just complex, it's meta-complex.

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• Obviously Hall & Oates wasn't overlooked by the masses in terms of the record sales.

  

  Inara George
  • Sales
  • Masses
  • Overlooked

• Follow your feelings. If it feels right, move forward. If it doesn't feel right, don't do it.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Feelings
  • Move
  • Forward

• The act of thinking and interpreting is so central to Judaism that it makes more sense that we've become people like Woody Allen - thinkers and talkers and drafters of law.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Law

• To a high degree we are, through art and science, cultured. We are civilized - perhaps too much for our own good - in all sorts of social grace and decorum. But to consider ourselves as having reached morality - for that, much is lacking.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Science
  • Consider
  • Decorum

• If European countries want to cater to U.S. foreign policy interests, I don't think that they stand to gain anything.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Thinking
  • Country
  • Interest

• The last pleasure in life is the sense of discharging our duty.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Life
  • Pleasure
  • Duty

• Without hesitation, I place Freud among the heroes. He dispossessed the Jewish people of the greatest and most influential of all heroes-Moses.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Heroes
  • Hesitation
  • Jewish People

• I get starstruck really easily. I love music so much - it sounds so silly to say that - so if I'm playing a festival and somebody I love, like [Primal Scream's] Bobby Gillespie, is there in the backstage area, I'm like, "Wow this is amazing! There they are!"

  

  Douglas Glenn Colvin Ramones
  • I Love
  • Festival
  • Backstage

• Writing totally changed my life. It gave me my life. Everything opened up.

  

  Judy Blume

• At one point in my practice, of the 10 largest home builders in the United States, seven of the 10 were my clients.

  

  William Krisel
  • Practice
  • States
  • Seven

• Everybody wants a solution on how to help their dogs, but we can't really see the problem until we reconnect ourselves to our instinctual self.

  

  Cesar Millan
  • Help
  • Problem
  • Dogs

• There are many things that black women can continue to do to help black folk. First, black women have historically been among the most vocal advocates for equality in our community. We must take full advantage of such courage by continuing to combat the sexism in our communities. Black women, whether in church, or hip-hop, don't receive their just due. Second, when black women are in charge of child-rearing, they must make ever so sure to raise black children who respect both men and women, and who root out the malevolent beliefs about women that shatter our culture.

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • Men
  • Children
  • Culture

• Investors repeatedly jump ship on a good strategy just because it hasn't worked so well lately, and, almost invariably, abandon it at precisely the wrong time.

  

  David Dreman
  • Worked
  • Investors
  • Abandon

• I have great faith in the jury system.

  

  Judge Mills Lane
  • Faith
  • System
  • Jury

• Sirius looked slightly disconcerted for a moment, then said, "I'll look for him later, I expect I'll find him upstairs crying his eyes out over my mother's old bloomers or something... Of course, he might have crawled into the airing cupboard and died... But I mustn't get my hopes up.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Eyes

• With three fires in a matter of hours, we knew the case had to be treated as a priority. Our patrol officers went into the complex and spoke with everyone they could. They gathered a lot of information.

  

  John Whiting
  • Matter
  • Knew
  • Case

• Everything is complex and everything is simple. The rose has no why attached to it, it blooms because it blooms, how no thought of itself, or desire to be seen. What could be more complicated than a rose for someone who wants to understand it? What could be simpler for someone who wants nothing? The complexity of thinking, the simplicity of beholding.

  

  Andre Comte-Sponville
  • Thinking
  • Simple
  • Complex

• I am very career minded, and I think my personality is more suited to America. I am a working mother.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • America
  • Mother
  • Career

• Human behavior is an enormously complex set of things, and that mixture of underlying things is different for different people, so it's not just complex, it's meta-complex.

  

  Vivienne Ming
  • Complex
  • Different People
  • Human Behavior