Vivienne Ming Quotes

Gender transition isn't about gender. It's about literally making yourself a better person because you know that's a better you.

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• They are very brave when they talk about other countries where they have no competencies, but where are they when we citizens need them? Is Europe's solution to Catalans to turn its back?

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Brave
  • Solution
  • Turn

• Yes, we've still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Good
  • Work

• In this business, it's easy for either your heart or your head to be swayed, and I try to always stay true to who I am.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Heart
  • Business
  • True

• My responsibility is to follow the law.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Law
  • Responsibility
  • Follow

• Yes, I am well aware that nature - or what we call nature: that totality of objects and processes that surrounds us and that alternately creates us and devours us - is neither our accomplice nor our confidant.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Nature
  • Objects
  • Processes

• I'm just kind of focused on playing the game and try to get better at certain things and wipe the slate clean every night.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Game
  • Night
  • Better

• I carry around, like, a little journal with me and just write all the time. Not necessarily, like, actually sitting down and writing lyrics - just freeform writing, whatever's going on in my mind. I write a lot on airplanes, actually, because it's completely isolating.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Mind

• It's not about putting a speaker in a chair or putting a TV in a bed. That's not how technology and the home intersect. For me, it's about sensors, about the home knowing where you are.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Home
  • Technology
  • Knowing

• The culture means the younger generation respecting the OGs, but at the same time, bringing it all to the older generation to where they can relate.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Time
  • Culture
  • Generation

• Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • World
  • Children
  • Education

• Anything's possible. If I turn round tomorrow and say I want to be a spaceman, I could do that. You can do whatever you want to do.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Want
  • Tomorrow
  • Possible

• We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • American
  • Pilots

• Primarily, we need to change 100 years of thinking, where we try to extend the promise of American life by moving things to Washington, and let's move it the other way: less of Washington, more from ourselves.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • American

• In truth, I became a conductor because deep down I wanted to conduct Brahms's four symphonies and Richard Strauss's tone poems.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Truth
  • Deep
  • Down

• When it comes to federal elections law, Tom DeLay and his special-interest friends live by one set of rules, and everyone else lives by a very different set.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Different
  • Live
  • Friends

• It is my wish that my ashes may repose on the banks of the Seine, in the midst of the French people, whom I have loved so well.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • People
  • May
  • Wish

• The United States needed a civil war to unite properly.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • War
  • Civil War
  • Unite

• Yeah, I don't necessarily like endings that contrive an artificial moment of completion.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Like
  • Moment
  • Completion

• Lord, if Thou knowest that I shall find, on leaving the house, even through obedience, an occasion of offending Thee, I conjure Thee to take away my life here, where Thou are really present, for Thou solely art my life, and I prefer a thousand deaths to causing Thee the slightest displeasure.

  

  Alphonsus Rodriguez
  • Life
  • House
  • Lord

• McCarthy emerged in the person of Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Person
  • Senator
  • Wisconsin

• While there are several challenges, I do believe that over the transition and into the Trump presidency, the media as a whole has done pretty good work, as opposed to a spottier record during the campaign. There has been a lot of shoe-leather reporting going on, and the great story thus far of the Trump White House is the willingness of people who work there to leak to the media.

  

  Erik Wemple
  • People
  • White
  • Transition

• Gender transition isn't about gender. It's about literally making yourself a better person because you know that's a better you.

  

  Vivienne Ming
  • Person
  • Gender
  • Transition