Jack Vance Quotes
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The line between private and public lives is a fertile one for me. I've lived quite a public life, and it's the reason I have used well-known people in my work. I'm interested in what's going on beneath the facades they present to the world, taking them to a place which is uncomfortable.
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My dear, did you ever stop to think what a wonderful bunker you would make?
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The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.
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However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights.
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Dear sisters and brothers, we realize the importance of light when we see darkness.
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If you keep bashing your head against the same wall, at some point you're going to fall over and be still for awhile.
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I don't attend costume parties.
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When I see a fan coming over, I can't help but make an assumption about what they want to talk about. A middle-aged American woman will head over, and I think, 'Game of Thrones.' Turns out it's 'The Tudors' or 'Elementary' or 'The Hunger Games.' It's always a surprise.
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I'm not really interested in politics, because I think it's just too removed from my own life. If there's a war, though, or a disaster, I want to know what's happening.
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We have seen that two heads are better than one when dealing with a mental health problem.
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We're a very active family, and I like everything in its place. I'm all about designing every little space. It will help me in the business of being a mom. Every single day is so crazy with my work that I just need to be able to come home and do that business as efficiently as I try to do my professional work.
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I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.
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China is trying to become America without democracy while America is trying to become France without cheese calories.
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I'm very passionate, very emotional, very sensitive. I've always been like that.
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The return to the Organization of the United States of America, the bearers of a great and diversified democratic culture that has inspired many other peoples.
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Ut desint vires, tamen est laudanda voluntas.
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'... You see, you are an optimist and live on hope. I am a pessimist and live on experience.'
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...I simply don’t want the poems mixed up with my life or opinions or picture or any other regrettable concomitants. I look like a bear and live in a cave; but you should worry.
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I'm prone to getting dark circles under my eyes when I'm tired, so I l use cover-up and instantly feel more confident.
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You have a place in my heart no one else could have.
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No animal up a tree can initiate a culture.
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I wasn't thinking of a sequel when I finished 'Life Class.' What changed my mind was the perception that the characters had a lot of life left in them, a lot of unresolved conflicts, and also I became interested in the Tonks pastel portraits of facially disfigured soldiers and in the whole area of facial reconstruction.
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People just want honest music.
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I have seen all I care to see and heard rather more.
