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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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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Therapists have tremendous power over their vulnerable clients, and it is very easy to take advantage of this power.
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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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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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Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.
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I love a great melody and wonderful lyrics that speak from the heart, and my music has that and speaks about it; but there's just something that was really raw and energetic about the early House music. It's hard to describe. It's like you had to go to these parties where the stuff was being played on these huge sound systems to really feel it.
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I have said it before and I will say it again: Impeachment is off the table.
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If the universe has any soul, it is the soul of irony.
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For his was now the loveliest partOf the young poet's life, when first,In solitude and silence nurst,His genius rises like a springUnnoticed in its wandering;Ere winter cloud or summer rayHave chill'd, or wasted it away,
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I saw 'The Shining' when I was too young with my dad in San Francisco in the hotel room.
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People try to make a Greek tragedy of my life, and they can't do it. I'm too happy.
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We all have seven secret lives. The life of excretion; the world of inappropriate sexual fantasies; our real hopes; our terror of death; our experience of shame; the world of pain; and our dreams. No one ever knows these lives. Consciousness is solitary. Each person lives in that bubble universe that rests under the skull, alone.
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India and China have not shied away from addressing boundary questions, have wisdom to find a fair and mutually acceptable solution... We have been able to put all issues on the table.
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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.'
