C. Vivian Stringer Quotes
She and I are personal friends, but as it relates to the game itself, she can see like I can see. She can tell what our strengths and weaknesses are just like I can with them, but I'm not necessarily worried about that. We just have to go out and play.
Quotes to Explore
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I believe that dogma is often evil.
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You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses.
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Writing is challenging work because it's so easy to get consumed with how it's going, what's going to happen to it, who's going to like or not like it. You want to get all of that stuff out of your head and just let the work flow.
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The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.
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The public debate about evolution itself, as opposed to whether to teach it, is something else. It is boring, demeaning, and insufferably dull.
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I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
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Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.
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I don't want to kill windowing; I want to restore choice and options.
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Here I am, this smart, bookish girl, and I have this biker-chick name.
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Sandy Koufax went to the same school as me. I graduated two years ahead of Sandy.
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The company that creates one global social graph will be very important going forward. It will be Facebook, with maybe 2-3 local social networks able to sustain competition long term.
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The pace of innovation may slow down or speed up depending on the appetite in the public markets, but the constant progress of technology doesn't really ever stop. There's always opportunities for new ideas and creative people to go build great things. I'm always interested in learning about those kinds of opportunities.
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We decided we don't use the term 'fat' for me. We use the term 'juicy' for me. My wife's fine with it, but the rule is when I'm over double her weight, it's over.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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I like the idea of being so passionate about everything I do and the fact that I might wake up tomorrow and say 'I want to be a chef,' and just pour myself into that.
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Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist. What they ignore is that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 1966.
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I fight for other people better than I fight for myself.
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The surveillance of ordinary people is far greater than I would have imagined and far greater than the American public has been able to debate.
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A poet or prose narrator usually looks back on what he has achieved against a backdrop of the years that have passed, generally finding that some of these achievements are acceptable, while others are less so.
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I don't really go out at night in terms of noisy, busy places; I prefer more of a quiet corner somewhere.
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I think her Grandmother Hall gave her a great sense of family love, and reassurance. Her grandmother did love her, like her father, unconditionally. And despite the order and the discipline - and home at certain hours and out at certain hours and reading at certain hours - there was a surprising amount of freedom. Eleanor Roosevelt talks about how the happiest moments of her days were when she would take a book out of the library, which wasn't censored.
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I could use a little monotony in my life. Spontaneity is exhausting.
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Another benefit of going to Cornell is that 90 percent of your friends are doctors.
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She and I are personal friends, but as it relates to the game itself, she can see like I can see. She can tell what our strengths and weaknesses are just like I can with them, but I'm not necessarily worried about that. We just have to go out and play.
