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.
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
My dear, did you ever stop to think what a wonderful bunker you would make?
Walter Hagen -
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.
Eckhart Tolle -
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.
Hans Kung -
Dear sisters and brothers, we realize the importance of light when we see darkness.
Malala Yousafzai -
If you keep bashing your head against the same wall, at some point you're going to fall over and be still for awhile.
Feist
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I don't attend costume parties.
Sam Shepard -
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.
Natalie Dormer -
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.
Zhang Ziyi -
We have seen that two heads are better than one when dealing with a mental health problem.
Kate Middleton -
I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.
Barry White -
China is trying to become America without democracy while America is trying to become France without cheese calories.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I'm very passionate, very emotional, very sensitive. I've always been like that.
Banks -
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.
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi -
Ut desint vires, tamen est laudanda voluntas.
Ovid -
'... You see, you are an optimist and live on hope. I am a pessimist and live on experience.'
Malcolm Bradbury -
...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.
Randall Jarrell -
I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills. The Equator runs across these highlands, a hundred miles to the North, and the farm lay at an altitude of over six thousand feet. In the day-time you felt that you had got high up, near to the sun, but the early mornings and evenings were limpid and restful, and the nights were cold.
Karen Blixen
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We wanted to write the first prequels as a story that anyone could pick up.
Kevin J. Anderson -
Everything that is ponderous, vicious and pompously clumsy, all long-winded and wearying kinds of style, are developed in great variety among Germans.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
I think doing 'Teen Wolf' is just giving me a really great opportunity to possibly get other jobs and show what I can do.
Colton Haynes -
It's hilarious a lot of times. You have a conversation with someone, and he's like, 'You speak so well!' I'm like, 'What do you mean? Do you understand that's an insult?
Jay-Z -
I have seen all I care to see and heard rather more.
Jack Vance