Vivienne Ming Quotes

It's important to me that talking about my experience not undermine those who choose differently. There can be a stigma for people who don't take the path I did, as though not having surgery means you're not really transitioning. No one should feel as though it's everything or nothing.

Vivienne Ming

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• I'm confident in who I am. I've come to a place in my life where I've accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That's just the way I've always tried to be. It didn't change when I became a star.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Life
  • Feeling

• I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Good
  • Attention
  • Advice

• Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Two
  • Directors
  • Asian

• I don't think taunting chants at players on the other side of the ice is intended to be sexist in the slightest. It's like when you call a goaltender a sieve, they chant that. Is that now inappropriate also?

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Think
  • You
  • Ice

• I have won the most national titles as a German, so what should I do after that? Lay back and take it easy? That's not how I am.

  

  Bastian Schweinsteiger
  • German
  • National
  • Titles

• I have had the good fortune through my God that I should never abandon his people whom I have acquired in the extremities of the earth.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • People
  • Good
  • God

• You're always facing the top defenders in this league. To go out there and do your best, that's all you can ask for.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Best
  • Always
  • Do Your Best

• I have to entertain, because if I don't entertain you, you're not going to continue reading. But if I'm not out to enlighten, or change your mind about something, or change your behavior, then I really don't want to take the journey.

  

  Bebe Moore Campbell
  • Mind
  • Change
  • Reading

• In my own relationships, I know that I should break up with someone who doesn't encourage me to be strong and make my own choices and do what's best in my life, so if you're dating someone who doesn't want you to be the best person you can be, you shouldn't be dating them.

  

  Veronica Roth
  • Life
  • Up
  • Strong

• What I have done in my nine year career was just a glimpse of what I can do.

  

  Randy Moss
  • Done
  • Career
  • Year

• It's a very enticing, very seductive place, but once you get to know what L.A.'s really like, you don't want to live there.

  

  Patrick Fugit
  • Live
  • Want
  • Know

• If someone asked me to do something I didn't want to do or didn't think was right, I wouldn't do it.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Think
  • Want
  • Right

• Sometimes you have to understand your place.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • You
  • Sometimes
  • Understand

• I never lose touch. If you let me tell it, I'll tell you I never got my just due and my respect for being one of the greats in hip-hop, and because of that, the fire never burned out. There's more and more of a need for me to succeed or take the legacy a step further, and that's what it is.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Respect
  • Fire
  • Legacy

• I started playing the violin when I was 5, but by the time I was 12 or 13, I wasn't really liking it.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Time
  • VIolin
  • Liking

• To leave Afghanistan as a playground for terrorists and adventurers was simply not possible anymore.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • Possible
  • Leave
  • Playground

• At the end of the day, it's about the reader's attachment to and belief in the magical elements that make or break magical realism.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Day
  • End
  • End Of The Day

• It is important to realize that the market economy, though it is associated historically with the rise of modern private capitalism, is as a mechanism not necessarily limited to that system.

  

  Daniel Bell
  • Important

• I remember being very psyched for our first tours, despite not knowing about the endless stream of situations and setbacks that we'd face.

  

  Ariel Pink
  • Remember
  • Face
  • Situations

• One of the things in my experience about changing parties: There are very few exceptions to the general rule. And the general rule has been, people are going to invite you into the church, but they are not going to make you a deacon.

  

  Pete Gallego
  • People
  • Experience
  • Church

• I played for Santos at 16, and we had an excellent team, so it helped a lot. And then I played for Brazil at the Maracana against Argentina. So I get more experience. This was one year before the World Cup, and it made a lot of difference.

  

  Pele
  • World
  • Experience
  • Team

• People pay all that money to sit in a chair in the theater mainly because it is a respectable way to see and experience things they cannot see and experience in their own lives.

  

  Elizabeth Ashley
  • People
  • Money
  • Experience

• People want to be bowled over by something special. Nine times out of ten you might strike out, but that tenth time, that peak experience, is what people want. That's what can move the world. That's art.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Art
  • Experience
  • Move

• It's important to me that talking about my experience not undermine those who choose differently. There can be a stigma for people who don't take the path I did, as though not having surgery means you're not really transitioning. No one should feel as though it's everything or nothing.

  

  Vivienne Ming
  • Experience
  • Choose
  • Surgery