Jack Vance Quotes
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What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.
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I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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Yeah, I'm from Jersey; it's almost like I was automatically born a Nets fan.
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First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain anything physically for their money.
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
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Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world.
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I got lost one time for a couple hours. It was pretty bad. I got lost in a creek, and I couldn't find my way back. The cops even had to come.
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Any pitcher who might throw at me should know I'm not giving up my day job or trying to get anyone else's job. I just can't think of anything cooler than being one of the boys of summer!
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Mel Gibson is losing it. I don't know how people still supporting this dude's movies like it's all good. That dude is nuts. All you gotta do is shut him down and don't support any of his movies.
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At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
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The joy of YouTube is that you can create content about anything you feel passionate about, however silly the subject matter.
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You always have to be on at times, and occasionally people get upset if you say no to a picture when you're eating dinner or something, and that's kind of the hard part. Or if you get crazy rumors that swirl around you from time to time that are just silly.
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I don't recognize my former self. Like I'm on the outside looking in at my life. Who is that guy?
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If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don't believe in it.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.
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People love to talk about themselves.
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I was the happiest guy in the world when I was on the ice. You're being paid to play a game! That's pretty special.
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I don't think there's anything that will make me stop doing it. There may be a time when it's not available to anyone. You may have to come listen at my basement window... but I can't stop.
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I was very fascinated by the time when firearms went from being fire sticks to being something people could use to hunt and to survive.
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I've dominated past competitions, but I've sweated blood and tears for every medal. I take nothing for granted, and I'm fully focused on doing my best.
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As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time.
