Jack Vance Quotes
Cease the bickering! I am indulging the exotic whims of a beautiful princess and must not be distracted.
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Whether or not we communicate it, I definitely seek my mom's acceptance and approval for everything. She has a strong commercial sense of movies and is a quintessential audience. When she doesn't like something, I know there is reason to worry. When she loves something, there is reason to celebrate.
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The mind must be cured as well as the body, as the mind so is the body.
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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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I've had five weddings but if I'm really honest and if I count significant de factos... I've had nine husbands... which sounds appalling but when you consider I started at 18 and I'm 65 it's not so bad.
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I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.
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Keep your energy levels high by adding bananas and egg whites to your diet.
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It is key that Kansas Citians make the call as to what kind of airport they want.
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I have a tendency to think that when you portray baddies in movies, they come out more human than good guys.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
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Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
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Did I shop Kmart for clothing? No, I didn't. But I loved that I could be totally involved in the hangtags, the buttons, the commercials and with the designers. Something in my head said 'Yes.' I was adventurous.
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It feels nice to be loved, but let me tell you there are 10 times more better looking, stylish and talented guys than me. So there's no solid reason for me to be proud! I don't think I have done anything extraordinary to change people's lives.
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Leadership is about encouraging women to break their silence and tell their stories to the world.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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Definitely, I think I fulfill a very funny Indian stereotype because I love technology. It's something I've always been interested in.
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Al Qaeda has overplayed their hand. What the al Qaeda do when they go into a town or village or a neighborhood inside a major city is they get a stranglehold on the people themselves. They force the men to wear beards and the women to be properly costumed and essentially completely covered up.
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Girls like you are responsible for all the tiresome colorless marriages; all those ghastly inefficiencies that pass as feminine qualities. What a blow it must be when a man with imagination marries the beautiful bundle of clothes that he's been building ideals around, and finds that she's just a weak, whining, cowardly mass of affectations!
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Our main character is Klem Ristovych, the most senior detective in the MCPD. Klem's a dinosaur, the oldest cop working the Fuse, and nobody can believe she hasn't retired yet. Hell, she can hardly believe it herself. But what else is she going to do? Sit at home and watch soap operas all day? She'd throw herself out of an airlock first.
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The day when efficacy would prevail over truth will never come for the Church, for then the gates of hell would have prevailed against her.
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Prayer needs neither learning, wisdom or book knowledge to begin it. It needs nothing but heart and will.
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Golden fetters are no less galling to a self-respecting man that iron ones; the sting lies in the fetters, not in the metal.
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Cease the bickering! I am indulging the exotic whims of a beautiful princess and must not be distracted.
