Jack Vance Quotes
This flattery has been rather slow in coming. I think all of sudden late in life now I'm getting some credit for what I've done. Which is gratifying, but it's kind of a little late.Jack Vance
Quotes to Explore
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With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I'm going to press on for equality. I'm going to press on for the sake of our children. I'm going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I am going to press on.
Barack Obama -
I'm absolutely a Ron Paul fan.
Gary Johnson -
Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
Florence King -
For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
Manuel Puig -
Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.
Fidel Castro -
It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
Ingrid Bergman
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It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires.
Ed Markey -
I got a little bit lost in the writing process: like, that moment in the 'Fight Song' music video where I'm throwing the crumpled paper on the bed, that was really true life. I was filling journals with different possibilities of lyrics for the first verse. And none of them felt right.
Rachel Platten -
The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and up to the summit.
Edmund Hillary -
Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.
D. H. Lawrence -
There's no regrets for me.
Adam Lambert -
You can't be taught to be brainy. You've either got it or you don't.
Samantha Fox
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It was great being together as a band, but much more difficult being brothers than it was being in a band.
Barry Gibb Bee Gees -
I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
Vera Wang -
Digital India is the only way for citizen empowerment, which can bring government transparency and accountability to citizens.
Safra A. Catz -
Dissensions between Muslim nations run at least as deep, if not deeper, than those nations' resentment of the West.
Salman Rushdie -
In Valdosta, Ga., during a mini-tour event, a player named James Black bet me $20 he could put five golf balls in his mouth and then close his mouth all the way. I tried it but could get only two in there.
Gary McCord -
I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.
Natalia Kills
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I always have the feeling in these low states that something good is about to happen. That's when I feel the fullest, the rawest, the closest to myself.
Nastassja Kinski -
But if we can work with people in other parties to get the right answer for the country we'll do that.
Francis Maude -
The field of 'economics and organization' is still young and needs support. I have been a chaired professor much of my academic life and know that such chairs are important for recruiting and retaining faculty.
Oliver E. Williamson -
You never know what show is going to change your life.
Brion James -
The protagonist in 'Winter's Bone' was a really good role for a female. She was strong; she didn't have to conform to something or be a sidekick to any man. That's part of what you're responding to; it's a woman-centric situation. Her value in the film was not reliant on any man.
Debra Granik -
This flattery has been rather slow in coming. I think all of sudden late in life now I'm getting some credit for what I've done. Which is gratifying, but it's kind of a little late.
Jack Vance