Jack Vance Quotes
We’ll rack our brains and either solve your problem or come up come up with new and better ones.
Quotes to Explore
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I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe.
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My mother is the sort of a person who has no boundaries and no filter. She also has a big ego, but it's a very unique one. And I grew up with lots of artists in an environment where conformity and the norm were totally not what anybody was after.
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The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
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Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.
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L.A. makes you feel ugly.
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Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.
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'The Voice' was the first real job I've ever had that wasn't just messing around with music.
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I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there.
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War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.
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We suffered a terrible blow on 11 September 2001. We responded with fear and anger. A fight-or-flight response is adaptive in any species. For us, given our power, fight was the only response we could imagine.
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The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much.
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My parents were really loving, open people to be around. I don't remember them ever telling me this profession is difficult. There was never, 'Uhhh, what else are you interested in?' They were just, 'Great. Done. Go for it.'
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When I was a kid, we got in a cipher and battled each other lyrically. We told jokes and made the hottest dance moves.
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My ritual is cooking. I find it therapeutic. It comes naturally to me. I can read a recipe and won't have to look at it again.
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I've heard 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' read, and I tell you Mrs. Stowe's pen hasn't begun to paint what slavery is as I have seen it at the far South. I've seen de real thing, and I don't want to see it on no stage or in no theater.
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Wherever you go at SXSW, there you are standing in line. Or watching other people stand in line.
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My greatest competition is, well, me.
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I doubt if there will ever be another Republican president in my lifetime.
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I think growing up in the States and Australia, we were exposed to a lot of different types of things. I used to go to Gilman to watch punk shows, and it's a complete different environment - you were inspired by so many different things, whereas in Hong Kong, there is nothing for anybody.
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If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.
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I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right; but it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation may be on the Lord's side.
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For nothing can be greater than seduction itself, not even the order that destroys it.
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We’ll rack our brains and either solve your problem or come up come up with new and better ones.
