Jack Vance Quotes
'You must save yourselves,' Rogol Domedonfors told them. 'You have ignored the ancient wisdom, you have been too indolent to learn, you have sought easy complacence from religion, rather than facing manfully to the world.'
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Every bad thing that's happened to me has defined me, has shaped, has moulded me.
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There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.
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I knew that for this movie to work it had to be very hot and very real, and it wasn't going to be a case of doing it Hollywood all covered with a nice little sheet.
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You either make dust or eat dust.
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I have a lot of friends and fans in Canada and as a matter of fact I met a fan from there that came down to my office. It was nice and we took pictures and had a nice talk.
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The fact that one can lose one's sense of self in an ocean of tranquility does not mean that one's consciousness is immaterial or that it presided over the birth of the universe.
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Therapists have tremendous power over their vulnerable clients, and it is very easy to take advantage of this power.
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When the kid goes to bed, you get a little bit of time for yourself and maybe your partner, so being delayed in that departure can be particularly frustrating.
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Throughout history, the only way to secure a throne has been with a phalanx of children - nine for Victoria, 13 for George III.
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I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.
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I'd love to work with Michael Buble, with Tony Bennett, with Damian Marley, with Andrea Bocelli.
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Our decision to close on Sunday was our way of honoring God and of directing our attention to things that mattered more than our business.
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As for the level of spectacle of the two disciplines, I leave it to the people who watch the races to comment.
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I'll never live to write all the stories I have in my head.
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My face always looks bored or depressed. It's not an accurate impression.
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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.
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Short cuts make long delays.
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If a big number of young pupils felt secularism was an attack on them, it was because the term had been misused and deformed in the public debate for years by the extreme-right and the right as an attack on Islam. The term had often been misused to point out how Muslims were different to others, and that is clearly problematic.
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When I was young, I looked up to Martina Hingis.
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For me, when I got married and when I had my daughter, those are two things that - when it does feel like work - makes me feel like I'm working for my family. I look around and just feel so blessed, because the opportunities that have been laid at my feet are second-to-none.
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The maker movement is about people who want to gain more control of the human design world that they interact with every day. Instead of accepting off-the-shelf solutions from institutions and corporations, makers would like to make, modify, and repair their own tools, clothing, food, toys, furniture, and other physical objects.
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Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money?
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I tell young comics, 'Do you want this badly enough? It's there. But you have to go get it. And if you think I'm going to give you the key to the lock of that door, there is no key, there is no lock, and there is no door.'
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'You must save yourselves,' Rogol Domedonfors told them. 'You have ignored the ancient wisdom, you have been too indolent to learn, you have sought easy complacence from religion, rather than facing manfully to the world.'
