Jack Vance Quotes
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
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The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.
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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
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I appreciate when people enjoy my work, but I don't like being recognized in public.
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I am enormously honored to be one of the spokesmen of the New Age Womens Health Campaign, so you'll be seeing me in public service announcements and public appearances supporting the campaign.
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That is the exciting thing: I don't know what God has given me for tomorrow.
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My job is being 'Mrs. Ronald Reagan.'
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Business is fun. Controlling your own destiny is fun. Creating an idea and turning it into a movie; finding an artist and guiding their career and bringing them to some type of status - there's joy in that.
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We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
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What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.
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I'm not trying to be macho, I promise you.
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There were periods of my life when a lot of people didn't believe in me. I still had faith in myself. I really had to ask myself life questions. Where do I see myself in five years? Create a ladder for yourself, and walk up the steps. Climb that ladder.
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Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
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A lot of female comedians will go up there in a sweatshirt and Converses, trying to dress themselves down, because it is sort of a boy's club. I'll go up in my heels. I like that people don't think I'll be funny. I'll take that on. I don't do standup comedy - I do standup and I do comedy, but I don't go up there and do jokes.
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It's joyful to give. But for people who want to take advantage of you, you're kind of an easy mark.
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Independent of its connection with human destiny hereafter, the fate of republican government is indissolubly bound up with the fate of the Christian religion, and a people who reject its holy faith will find themselves the slaves of their own evil passions and of arbitrary power.
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I don't like the sun, but I live in California.
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A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.
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In general people put too much faith in the rich, the famous, the politicians, and not enough faith in themselves.
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I challenge Destiny, yes, but I do not leap off cliffs.
