Joan D. Vinge Quotes

Studying anthropology, I developed a kind of holistic view of human existence, in which the dichotomies you listed are all necessary and vital aspects of life.

Joan D. Vinge

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 2, 1948

Topics

LifeViewYouKindHumanStudying

When I wrote the opera, I made a deal with myself that for at least an hour a day I would work on it, even if it meant just sitting on my piano bench, staring into space and thinking about it. It's about keeping it regular, like your bowel movements - let's get real: it's your bodily artistic movements! It comes from the same place.

Rufus Wainwright

WorkMyselfDaySpaceThinkingReal

Sometimes when you're heavy into the shooting or editing of a picture, you get to the point where you don't know if you could ever do it again.

Martin Scorsese

PictureYouKnowSometimesEditing

For whatever reason, in this country we have a very interesting relationship with poverty, where we think people in poverty are bad people.

Michael Tubbs

RelationshipPeopleThinkBad People

I just love being in the U.K.

Logan Lerman

LoveBeingJust

Many have forged a path to greatness lit only by a vision in their minds.

Chris Gardner

VisionPathGreatnessMindsLit

My roots and Victor's are jazz, basically, but these two young fellows that we have with us come out of rock bands. And they're tremendously exciting players.

Chico Hamilton

RootsYoungJazzRockTwoOut

All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation.

Conrad Black

AmericanPunishmentAlmostNone

I don't play bad guys. I think that's why I keep getting cast as bad guys: because I don't want to play bad guys. I want to play human beings that struggle with life.

Cliff Curtis

LifeStruggleThinkBadPlayWant

I am never wrong when it comes to my possibilities.

Placido Domingo

I AmPossibilitiesWrongNeverAm

Protection, as we use the word in Buddhism, is actually wisdom, it's insight. Protection is seeing and knowing deeply that all things in our experience arise due to causes, due to conditions coming together in a certain way.

Sharon Salzberg

WisdomExperienceTogetherSeeing

Empirical debunking cannot reach the deepest fear of the reactionary mind, which is that the state - that devouring leviathan - will soon swallow up all traces of human volition and dignity. The conclusion is based on conservative moral convictions that reason can't shake.

Rick Perlstein

FearMindReachDignityMoralWill

I think if I had come out of drama school and been an instant Hollywood superstar, I would be taking long, leisurely holidays.

Richard C. Armitage

SchoolThinkHolidaysLongDrama

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