Vivienne Ming Quotes

Why did I go back to school? After working with giant snails as the manager of an abalone farm, who wouldn't be fascinated with the inner workings of the mind? They are a very contemplative species.

Vivienne Ming

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I think one of the main challenges that the World Bank faces is creating an organizational structure that doesn't get in the way of its staff. We have fantastic staff. People told me as I was coming into the organization that the greatest asset of the World Bank Group is its staff, and I think there's no question that that's the case.

Jim Yong Kim

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Both my parents were atheists, and my grandmother was an atheist in rural Kentucky, and so they were trying to make sure that my brother and I would be atheists, too, and it worked, which doesn't mean that they didn't teach us a lot of wonder of science and of nature and the world and all of that.

Andrew Sean Greer

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Inherent in architecture, it involves everything in life so that there is absolutely no end to it. By the time you're seventy or eighty, you're still beginning. So, that's the kind of life I've preferred to being the expert at forty and dead, you know.

John Lautner

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I'm a shy person, so I get really nervous going into interviews.

Skylar Grey

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Segregated Witness was forced onto the miners by the community.

Tone Vays

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The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human. Meander if you want to get to town.

Michael Ondaatje

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Michael Moore became an industry hero and the most visible symbol of the Hollywood left.

Michael Medved

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I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I want to be known as a nice and normal person, but my skills are a little more excelled.

Misty May-Treanor

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I'm a very hard-line, angry atheist. Yet I am fascinated by the concept of devotion.

Joss Whedon

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We were producing 'La La Land'... and then we weren't. So it was a very painful topic, but I'm happy the movie was as successful as it was. And, of course, I wish we had produced it.

Jason Blum

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I'm not against working out. It's just not effective for weight loss. I like strength training to tone and firm the body so you look tight. But working out just makes you hungrier.

Jorge Cruise

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I was a creative player, but I got some bad injuries early on and I decided that if this was a jungle we were playing in then it's better to be a lion than a lamb.

Johnny Giles

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