Jack Vance Quotes
Beauty compelled admiration and erotic yearning; such was its organic function. But never by itself could it command love.
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I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends.
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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
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Africa has no future.
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In my memoir, I admit that I've been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when 'Passages' was published, I so dreaded bad reviews that I ran away to Italy with a girlfriend and our children to hide out.
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Being famous has changed a lot, because now there's so many outlets, between magazines, TV shows, and the Internet, for people to stalk and follow you. We created the monster.
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Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.
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Doing a TV show is different because it's more of a TV version of something. A more focused take on things.
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It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man's daughter would not understand blues.
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I liked 'Star Wars,' but I wasn't an uberfan like many people are.
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I thought Twitter was a joke. I really thought it was a gag. I thought it was like National Lampoon or the Onion.
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That's a term that I really like - 'permissionless innovation' - because anybody who has an idea and has a solution can tap into or can leverage the Bitcoin blockchain.
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John Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded.
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It's hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don't always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.
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Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.
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Every time when they would call my name I kept hearing 'New York Knicks' instead of 'Seattle SuperSonics.'
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I started dancing when I was five, and I trained intensively as a competitive dancer up until the end of high school. I did all genres, and later on a did a lot of extra ballet on top of that. I actually got accepted to Julliard for dance during my senior year, but I ultimately turned it down to come to L.A. to act.
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Once you are dancing with the devil, the prettiest capers won't help you.
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Restaurants are a wonderful escape for me. And are for a lot of people.
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Layne is the most creative, witty and sharp-minded guy I've ever met. People should get to know Layne before they comment about him. Layne loves having fun and playing jokes - it was his idea to do 'The Nona Tapes'. He's certainly not the miserable guy he's painted to be.
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My boyfriend thinks I lost my true calling to be a librarian.
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You gave me reason to believe that we were always meant to be, but now I see you were wrong, you can't keep running back to me with all them baby baby please, No More.
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The Bible... provides no guide to reading the Bible. In fact, it is full of such inconsistencies, contradictions, lacunae, obscurities, baffling tales, and poetic imagery that to quote it at all is to select from conflicting alternative passages. Every quotation is therefore necessarily an interpretation.
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I've always been into visual effects. It was something I took keen interest in before films happened. Ironically, I am a part of 'Raaz 3,' a film that is shot entirely on 3D. It has encouraged me to pursue my dream. Hopefully, if time permits, I will travel to the United States and attend a crash course in visual graphics and animation.
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Beauty compelled admiration and erotic yearning; such was its organic function. But never by itself could it command love.
