Jack Vance Quotes
Speaking our language, you will understand us-and if you can think as another man thinks, you cannot dislike him.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't like possessions.
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It's been tough for me being away from the game.
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With 'Mad Men,' people who grew up or were living in that time, they love to talk about what it was really like.
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I love babies. I love being pregnant and I loved giving birth.
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Christians who believe in the Bible believe that it is their job to bring others the joy of salvation. Even if they're murdered, beaten to death, imprisoned - that's what you do for God.
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I don't think anybody's really been successful with theorizing about value or creating a price theory.
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You might expect that the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists would be there and they are.
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I am a very active audience member. I want to be moved. I want to be confronted. I want to feel.
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Everything I am I owe to my faith and secondly to parents who were old school.
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When I look at relationships, my own and others, I see a wide range of reasons for people to be together and ways in which they are together. I see ways in which a relationship - which means something that exists between two or more people - for the most part reinforces people's separateness as individual entities.
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I'm slammed with an identity that can no longer say a word; mute with responsibility.
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I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.
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I always knew that I wanted to do something in business and I prepared myself for that.
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Free-diving is all about being lean, being super-flexible, and having a good breath hold.
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I've been a jealous person myself. I've been distrustful, convinced that somebody's having an affair with somebody else. If you believe it in your head, everything looks like a lie. When you're looking for it, you always see it - even the change of expression in their face.
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The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment.
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The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.
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Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.
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White artists have made millions of dollars off music they stole from black artists. I don't blame all the white artists. I'm a huge Stevie Ray Vaughn fan, and he was always very gracious about where he learned his music. But a lot of the time, you'd think the white guys thought it up. Hey, hasn't anyone heard of Muddy Waters?
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It's incumbent on good public servants to maintain their voices and originality of thinking.
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Although we followed that hyena for the best part of half an hour, we never caught up with it.
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Facts have proved that prosperity at the expense of the environment is only delaying disaster. We cannot passively protect our environment by simply stopping economic development.
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There's a lot of women now with a whole lot of style but they are not necessarily song stylists. Some of their style is a lot like me and a lot of people sound a lot alike - you can't tell them apart.
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Speaking our language, you will understand us-and if you can think as another man thinks, you cannot dislike him.
