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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Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science.
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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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It's interesting to all of a sudden be considered valuable.
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Whoever the next prime minister of this country will be, it will be a female prime minister and a female prime minister who has formidable skills and I know whichever one of the two wins they will lead this country well.
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It is through the imagination that the formless takes form.
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The 5,000 or so acres of Royal Parks are one of the things that make London special.
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The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
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Speaking our language, you will understand us-and if you can think as another man thinks, you cannot dislike him.
