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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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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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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The concept of muse is alien to me. To speak of a muse implies there is a couple in which one person is the objectified passive element - there to help the creative, active, often male part of the duo to create. A muse is very passive. Who wants a muse? I don't want a muse.
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The simple act of commitment is a powerful magnet for help.
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I am very musical. Am I a great singer? No. But I'm extremely musical.
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Beauty compelled admiration and erotic yearning; such was its organic function. But never by itself could it command love.
