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Khoi Vinh
"I think as technology and expertise makes possible these sort of amazing levels of fidelity to the real world, a lot of people sort of get sort of - what's the word I'm looking for - seduced into that. And after a time, they get tired of it and they become a little bit more interested, I think at a certain level of subtraction and a new level of sophistication." --
Source : Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. March 3, 2010.
Khoi Vinh
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“The truly changed, truly converted, truly Christian heart can say with John Newton, “I am not what I ought to be. I am not what I wish to be. I am not what I hope to be. Yet I can truly say, I am not what I once was. By the grace of God, I am what I am.”
“Never let a crisis go to waste”
“I get paid to ask questions I don't know the answers to and to complain about the things that bother me.”
Source : "It's Getting Ugly Out There: The Frauds, Bunglers, Liars, and Losers Who Are Hurting America". Book by Jack Cafferty, 2008.
“The generation of seeds ... is therefore marvelous and analogous to the other productions of living things. For first of all an umbilicus appears. ... Its extremity gradually expands and after gathering a colliquamentous ichor becomes analogous to an amnion. ... In the course of time the seed or fetus begins to become visible.”
“Turner has outdone himself; he seems to paint with tinted steam, so evanescent and so airy.”
Source : John E. Thornes, John Constable (1999). “John Constable's Skies: A Fusion of Art and Science”, p.181, A&C Black
“When they first cast me, I was a pretty avid fan and vampire movies and Celtic mythology, so I was excited to get a chance to walk in Doyle's shoes and have fun with it.”
“It's not like I was an alkie or anything. Alcohol is for cleaning needles”
“Hollywood is a small, familial place. Everyone does business with everybody else. The same complications occur in investment banking.”
