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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If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
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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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Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.
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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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I was interested in theatre and media and came to Mumbai to get a job. I imagined that the film industry would be a white building with producers sitting in different rooms, and you could walk in and meet them, and they would interview you and select you.
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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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My standards are based on shows I like, like 'Girls' or 'Arrested Development.' And they're all shows that are groundbreaking. I guess in the back of my head, I think, If you're not being groundbreaking, then what are you doing? If you're not being ballsy and honest and vulgar, then what are you doing?
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In the first couple of years when you're transitioning you don't really fit into any gender, because you're changing over. You have to start getting electrolysis before you even start your therapy. But I think all the weird looks help to give you conviction in who you really are.
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Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.
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We want to be, I think, an example for the rest of the Arab world, because there are a lot of people who say that the only democracy you can have in the Middle East is the Muslim Brotherhood.
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To be with another woman, that is French. To be caught, that is American.
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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.
