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 was raised Catholic.
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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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I do not follow the rules of fashion, and I don't like to be considered a man of the world of fashion. I like to call it the 'style industry' because we try to work on taste.
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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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What are we waiting for, assembled in the forum? The barbarians are due here today.
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Wherefore, if, according to what we have already said, it should return again about the year 1758, candid posterity will not refuse to acknowledge that this was first discovered by an Englishman.
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In total, I was diagnosed with depression by eight psychotherapists and psychiatrists over a period of thirteen years. Diagnosed wrong. Absolutely wrong. My accurate diagnosis was manic depression, or what we call bipolar disorder today.
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I want viewers to see that everything is connected, even the little guys like pollinators and flowers.
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I've always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up with the books and then Michael Horden's animations.
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Beauty compelled admiration and erotic yearning; such was its organic function. But never by itself could it command love.
