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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It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.
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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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Just touching that old tree was truly moving to me because when you touch these trees, you have such a sense of the passage of time, of history. It's like you're touching the essence, the very substance of life.
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There are not enough female VCs in an industry so traditionally dominated by males. There are not enough female mentors who are actively engaged with female founders. We need women VCs and entrepreneurs to stand up, get loud, and help guide their peers.
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Hail Man, exalted title! first and best, On God's own image by his hand imprest; To which at last the reas'ning race is driv'n, And seeks anew what first it gain'd from Heav'n.
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I was lucky - the first eight productions I auditioned for, I got cast.
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Sadness creeping from the shadows will get less and less until it crushes her no more than a petal might her breath.
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I have seen all I care to see and heard rather more.
