Vivienne Ming Quotes
Before I came out, people always asked me math questions. But once I became a woman, they stopped. There's unintended discrimination.
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It's more important to fly midpoint in deals and work together than to try to haggle for the last dollar.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.
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He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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One of the things I have to do, and I'm working on it, is making sure I enjoy the ride along the way. I have to remind myself, 'Take a look around, look at things, and enjoy it.'
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I was 6, and I was in the opera 'Carmen.' My dad sang opera and got me into the children's chorus. I was super fat at the time and didn't make eye contact with anyone. I knew I loved acting ever since.
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The day you stop learning and creating must be the most boring day.
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I have this wonderful personal chef who sources and stocks all my organic produce and I basically live on five smoothies a day. I'm totally vegan. I blend this green concoction with kale, cucumber, broccoli, string beans, avocado. My protein comes from protein powder. There is absolutely no milk, butter, cheese.
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I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know?
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In some families, parents don't read or don't have the money to spend on books.
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The experiments show quite clearly that, as you resist more and more temptation, you're actually more and more likely to fail.
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Once I've decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition.
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The Dalai Lama can claim the sanction of the Buddha, who is said to have altered his teachings in order to reach a diverse audience.
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Let there be great enthusiasm for the plan throughout the entire republic that will overcome all obstacles. Let us join together to realize the Five Year Plan and bring our economy and our own living standards to previously unknown heights.
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It sounds depressing, but I think when you truly love someone, you'll never stop loving them.
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I received so many hate letters when I breast-fed a starving baby in Africa. I was in Sierra Leone in 2009 and I was weaning my child at that time - she was not there with me. There was a hungry baby who was crying because his mother had no milk, and I thought, 'Why throw away my milk if I can give it to a baby who needs it?'
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I think foreign countries really do like it when American artists sing in their language. And when you go over there and say, 'Hi, how are you?' in their language, they love it. It makes them feel like you're doing it just for them. We in America take so much for granted.
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In Latin America, even atheists are Catholics.
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The most annoying and full-of-crap thing a writer says is, 'I write only for myself, I don't care if anyone reads it.' A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
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I was just taking pictures to see what they looked like. Just for the fun of it. It wasn't about anything in some cases. Some of them were just about the joy of opening up an aperture and seeing what shows up.
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Black America knows better than anyone else the high price children pay for the sexual agendas of adults.
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We constantly abuse and defend a woman's prerogative to change her mind.
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Before I came out, people always asked me math questions. But once I became a woman, they stopped. There's unintended discrimination.
