Jack Vance Quotes
In measured tones he answered Madouc: 'Your condition lacks dignity; you bring ridicule upon us all.'Madouc gave a stony shrug. 'If you do not like what you see, look elsewhere.'
Quotes to Explore
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Science is curiosity, testing and experimenting.
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I still think reading something like 'Ulysses' takes a tremendous investment of time, but it repays all of it with so much interest.
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New drugs and surgical techniques offer promise in the fight against cancer, Alzheimer's, tuberculosis, AIDS, and a host of other life-threatening diseases. Animal research has been, and continues to be, fundamental to advancements in medicine.
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I like rock music because it's always sonically fascinating. There's never a method to what it needs to sound like. It's just however that instrument comes out that day, whatever the humidity level was in the air, what studio you were at. All that makes that tone that you can't re-create, so each song is like a person.
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We learned to put discipline in the haircuts by using actual geometry, actual architectural shapes and bone structure. The cut had to be perfect and layered beautifully, so that when a woman shook it, it just fell back in.
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As a reader, I've always been interested in dystopian novels like 'Nineteen Eighty-four'.
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The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.
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I don't know why I always liked aerospace engineering. I was in the 10th grade when I figured that's what I wanted to do.
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When I need to cry, I think of very sad things, mostly about animals.
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She said it had been hijacked shortly after takeoff. By this time, the plane had been in the air - again, I'm presuming that it took off on time - for over an hour.
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I don't like the actors to work together beforehand. I trust my intuition, and I like when the actors are the same.
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I get really scared about how the Internet is shifting and changing everyone's minds, and the way we see ourselves and interact online. Everything is so diluted now.
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The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.
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I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions that you can possibly delve into.
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Justice is merely incidental to law and order.
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Good luck is a residue of preparation.
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I simply want tomorrow to be better than today. I want Palestine to be independent and sovereign... Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.
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A woman who is denied an education is denied equality.
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The story of Dunbar shows what can happen in spite of huge legal, societal, and professional hurdles. It shows what is possible when a group of people focus and band together to make something better. Dunbar shows what happens when a stable middle class exists. And Dunbar shows us that politics pollutes education.
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As I read, my suspicion that Jesus might really be the Messiah was confirmed.
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Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.
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Diet Coke is the only way I get through filming because I get so tired.
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In measured tones he answered Madouc: 'Your condition lacks dignity; you bring ridicule upon us all.'Madouc gave a stony shrug. 'If you do not like what you see, look elsewhere.'
