Jack Vance Quotes
And I understand they are, in a sense, artists? That is to say, they understand the creative process, the sublimation of fact to symbol and the use of symbol to suggest emotion?
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Every frame of a Coen brothers movie is filled with history and meaning, and the deeper you go, the deeper you get. That's why their movies stand up particularly well to repeated viewing and investigation.
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I don't have a connection to the fashion world at all.
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New York is my home.
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By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
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I love engaging in conversation with other moms because we can relate to one another, and we swap valuable insight and information.
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I've got four kids - I unblock a toilet every day.
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I once rode a motorcycle across Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco!
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Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.
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The right diet directs sexual energy into the parts that matter.
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To sit on a ranch horse that's been broken in, it's like getting in a Porsche.
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Paul Lucas had a particularly amusing accent, so I chuckled. That was terrible; I shouldn't have done that, but he took it too big. He got up and said he couldn't work with people who laughed at him!
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I have no desire to make money off musicians. I just want to promote them because I want to share music.
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The Republican Party - that was the end of the Republican Party. What Pete Wilson did with the xenophobia and the negative attitude, all this sort of anti-crime backlash.
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I try not to eat anything which is too fat, and I can't eat anything which is too sweet.
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I was shy. Bookish. The kind of 13-year-old girl who, instead of having a boyfriend, would have a crush on a dead, 19th-century author!
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We really have to think of reasoning the way we think of romance, it takes two to tango. There has to be a communication.
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It’s all right to need help. All of us have things we can’t do alone.
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The tool, as we have seen, is not exterminated by the machine.
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The main tenet of design thinking is empathy for the people you're trying to design for. Leadership is exactly the same thing - building empathy for the people that you're entrusted to help.
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I never met Johnny Cash personally, but I feel like I did because I listened to so much of his music, and even though he's gone, it's still there: you can go pull a vinyl record out and hear his personal thoughts and his voice and feel connected to him.
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If I keep breathing, then I have to keep living, and if I keep living, then I have to keep hurting, and I can't - not like this.
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Hollywood can buy a lot of pieces of the puzzle, but the great thing is they can never buy word of mouth.
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We live today in a world in which nobody believes choices should have consequences. But may I tell you the great secret that our culture seeks to deny? You cannot escape the consequences of your choices. Time runs in only one direction.
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And I understand they are, in a sense, artists? That is to say, they understand the creative process, the sublimation of fact to symbol and the use of symbol to suggest emotion?
