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.

Vivienne Ming

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• If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Never
  • Bike
  • Falling

• It's more important to fly midpoint in deals and work together than to try to haggle for the last dollar.

  

  N. Murray Edwards
  • Work
  • Important
  • Together

• At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • You
  • Grow
  • Flame

• The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Death
  • Growth
  • Maturity

• He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Hell
  • He
  • Inquisitive

• 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.'

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Myself
  • Enjoy
  • Ride

• 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.

  

  Owen Benjamin
  • Time
  • Children
  • Dad

• The day you stop learning and creating must be the most boring day.

  

  Samantha Barks
  • You
  • Stop
  • Learning

• 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.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Live
  • Day
  • Green

• I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know?

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Want
  • Know
  • Perfection

• In some families, parents don't read or don't have the money to spend on books.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Money
  • Parents
  • Books

• The experiments show quite clearly that, as you resist more and more temptation, you're actually more and more likely to fail.

  

  Dan Ariely
  • You
  • More
  • Temptation

• Once I've decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Something
  • Try
  • Carry

• 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.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Audience
  • Said
  • Reach

• 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.

  

  Walter Ulbricht
  • Great
  • Together
  • Unknown

• It sounds depressing, but I think when you truly love someone, you'll never stop loving them.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Think
  • For Him
  • Loving

• 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?'

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Time
  • Why
  • She

• 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.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Love
  • American
  • America

• In Latin America, even atheists are Catholics.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • America
  • Latin
  • Even

• When a song blows your mind the first time you hear it, you don't know where it's going. It's blowing your mind as it's unfolding. Then there's that sensation that you're actually going to remember the song.

  

  Ariel Pink
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Remember

• I just don't think the title 'MJ's daughter' fits me.

  

  Paris Jackson
  • Think
  • Me
  • Daughter

• That's Venus, September thought. She was the goddess of love. It's nice that love comes on first thing in the evening, and goes out last in the morning. Love keeps the light on all night.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Love
  • Night
  • Light

• I've had a few encounters: At a restaurant, this woman that was like, 'Oh my God, oh my God, can we take a picture with you? My son said not to, but I just had to. You my favorite 'Devils Girl!'

  

  Taylour Paige
  • God
  • Girl
  • Woman

• Before I came out, people always asked me math questions. But once I became a woman, they stopped. There's unintended discrimination.

  

  Vivienne Ming
  • Woman
  • Questions
  • Discrimination