Jack Vance Quotes
It seems to limit you; when you're working in an office, you're a creature in a small cell under somebody's supervision and surveillance.
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It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.
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The Open Access Movement has fought valiantly to ensure that scientists do not sign their copyrights away but instead ensure their work is published on the Internet, under terms that allow anyone to access it.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.
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My job was to turn the company around and to give Time Warner a profitable Web business to spin off and a profitable access business that still throws off a tremendous amount of cash. I can check both of those boxes. I am done, and I feel good about what we've accomplished.
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You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had.
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'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thought that it was a great song and it was hot. That was the beginning of rock n' roll, and I guess they thought it would be a BB King version of rock n' roll.
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While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
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I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I used with a small Gibson amplifier.
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I feel like you just need to keep writing until the writing itself just begins to take shape.
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I feel people care so much about their appearance - which is important, and I do still care about my appearance, but not that much. There's far more to life than that.
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The worship of youth has diminished - perhaps generally - in recent years.
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In all these years, I've understood one thing: that it's only your work that should do all the talking.
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Country fans and country listeners deserve to have something better... a song that really has something to say, something that makes you feel something.
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I love my job so much, and not everyone can say that and I recognize how lucky that is.
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If Republicans are aiming for the heart, for compassion, the last thing they should do is abandon the sanctity of life. Instead, they should tell Americans that they believe in the dignity and value of every human being, from the defenseless unborn child, to the newborn with a disability, to the 90-year-old dealing with dementia.
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I loved Peg Bundy. I am so happy that I got to do that. It was really fun.
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With the neutron bomb, which destroys life but not property, capitalism has found the weapon of its dreams.
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I just can't wait to get out there on stage. There's no anxiety at all. I love being able to take this journey with the audience, because we all have a ball with it - even if we're crying.
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Excuse me, but I just have to say this. You are more stupid than a paramecium.
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The small is easy to scatter.
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It seems to limit you; when you're working in an office, you're a creature in a small cell under somebody's supervision and surveillance.
