"When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home."

-- Thornton Wilder

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“Bigger budget features are the juice. Delicious juice you want to spill all over yourself.”
“In my opinion, one of the biggest drawbacks about Sergio Leone films are the scores composed by Ennio Morricone. If [Leone] were as talented as I am, he would have made mixtapes for his movies instead of letting some schmuck write the soundtracks for him. But then if he were as talented as I am, he'd be Zach Braff. And have his own Grammy.”
“Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program.”

Source : Vernor Vinge (2010). “Zones of Thought: A Fire Upon the Deep, A Deepness in the Sky”, p.257, Hachette UK
“I grew up with very hands-on jobs. I was raised on a farm and taught to work hard. In this high-tech, high-speed society, somewhere along the line, we got the message that if we're not a brain surgeon or an astronaut, we really shouldn't be proud of ourselves.”
“I prefer to play the villain or the antihero.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“It must be an independent House, having a free action of its own, for it is only valuable as being a regulating body, calmly considering the legislation initiated by the popular branch, and preventing any hasty or ill considered legislation which may come from that body, but it will never set itself in opposition against the deliberate and understood wishes of the people.”
“That very aggressive, unapologetic leadership style is needed in Washington, D.C., and I'm not afraid to tackle big issues.”
“The older you get, the more you live with ghosts.”

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