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?
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The lunch in a normal American restaurant is very problematic for me. I don't like to have hot food for lunch.
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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.
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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.
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My responsibility is to follow the law.
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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.
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I have made 'start, grow and stay' a big part of my administration.
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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.
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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.
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When I was growing up in Pennsylvania, auditioning for Broadway was my dream.
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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.
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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.
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Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
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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.
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We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to.
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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.
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In truth, I became a conductor because deep down I wanted to conduct Brahms's four symphonies and Richard Strauss's tone poems.
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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.
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You remember Donnie Brasco? It's the most notorious undercover movie ever; it's so street and so real. If you ever imagined yourself doing cop work, you imagined yourself getting pushed to that limit - seeing the furthest you can push yourself while still upholding the law.
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I used to dream militant dreams of taking over america to show these whitefolks how it should be done i used to dream radical dreams of blowing everyone away with my perceptive powers of correct analysis i even used to think that i'd be the one to stop the riot and negotiate the peace then i awoke & dug that if i dreamed natural dreams of being a natural woman doing what a woman does when she's natural i would have a revolution.
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I think many people are terribly afraid of being demoted by the Darwinian scheme from the role of authors and creators in their own right into being just places where things happen in the universe.
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A couple of times, I felt like I was cracking and I couldn't go on, and God would put another person in my place to help me.
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Gender transition isn't about gender. It's about literally making yourself a better person because you know that's a better you.
