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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That men should live honestly, quietly, and comfortably together, it is needful that they should live under a sense of God's will, and in awe of the divine power, hoping to please God, and fearing to offend Him, by their behaviour respectively.
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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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Writers, particularly poets, always feel exiled in some way - people who don't exactly feel at home, so they try to find a home in language.
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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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So if you want to have a great video game-based movie you have to keep the mood of the game, use the normal character setup - but you have to flesh out the story and provide more background for the characters.
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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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The pioneering instrument of reform was the Bank of England. Of all institutions concerned with economics none has for so long enjoyed such prestige. It is, in all respects, to money as St. Peter's is to Faith.
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My job is to perform, enjoy cricket and thank God for whatever he has given me.
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There is a fraternity more comprehensive and more universal than the 'brotherhood of man.' Let us think and speak of the 'brotherhood of being.' Let us see in the ox a patient, industrious kinsman, worthy of respect. Let us see and recognize in the sheep a meek and docile fellow creature appealing to us for protection and admiration.
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Put simply, what I'd like to do is to see the first two years of community college free for everybody's who is willing to work for it.
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Beauty compelled admiration and erotic yearning; such was its organic function. But never by itself could it command love.
