Jack Vance Quotes
If there were no such creatures as minstrel-maidens, it would be necessary to invent them.
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I don't favour ethics classes being an alternative to special religious education classes.
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All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.
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We are constantly competing with the monsters from the id.
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I'm the worst employer I could wish for because I push myself hard.
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Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
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PG-13 horror, I just don't watch that.
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I realized that it's all really one, that John Lennon was correct. We utilize the music to bring down the walls of Berlin, to bring up the force of compassion and forgiveness and kindness between Palestines, Hebrews. Bring down the walls here in San Diego, Tijuana, Cuba.
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I have no doubt that given a real choice, the vast majority of Muslims and Arabs, like everyone else will choose a free society over a fear society.
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Sometimes my colleagues joke and call me Hannah.
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Shouldn't you put the same amount of effort into your giving as you might for your for-profit investments? After all, philanthropy is an investment, and one in which lives - not profits - are at stake.
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I said the export benefit should go to all the farmers in the country through the mills spread across the country, in states like Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal. Now what happens? This benefit goes to those mills or export houses in Mumbai. Or in Chennai or in Bangalore.
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I was determined to create my own identity. My first hits, in fact, were straight-up rhythm and blues. My voice was compared to Aretha Franklin's - though, for my money, no one compares to Aretha.
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I was a dancer, and my father was a dancer, so I really grew up in that environment.
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I like a man who's going to tell me 'No!' sometimes.
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At Sussex University, I developed a system called WinLocX to help with the process of translating software into foreign languages.
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If at any moment of the day I ever think I'm remotely cool at all, which is hardly ever, I have two daughters who make sure that never happens.
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I have no problem with people eating meat. I would just like it, for the people who do eat meat, for the animals to be treated better. To be treated humanely. Cows in pastures living the life that they're supposed to live. I have no problem with that.
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I will be Chateaubriand or nothing.
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Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me.
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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
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The enemies of American civilization-- for such are the enemies of slavery-- seem to be more on the alert than its friends.
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Selection of UN delegates by governments cannot give the peoples of the world the feeling of being fairly and proportionately represented. The moral authority of the UN would be considerable enhanced if the delegates were elected directly by the people. Were they responsible to an electorate, they would have much more freedom to follow their consciences.
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Yes, I had to learn how to live life outside, but I had so many people help me.
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If there were no such creatures as minstrel-maidens, it would be necessary to invent them.
