Jack Vance Quotes

Since we are not permitted to act, we are obliged to know.

Jack Vance

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• That's why I talk about the breast cancer: because I want women - and everyone - to stay on top of things and get checked. I know how scary it can be. When I dealt with it, I was like, 'Oh my God.' And I have so many other friends who have gone through it or have suffered a loss.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • God
  • Women
  • Why

• I think it would be shocking for me to pretend not to have any past. And also, it would be a lie.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • Think
  • Past
  • Lie

• I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Live
  • Present
  • Yesterday

• I hear a little firecracker go off when you come up with a good rhyme.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Up
  • Good
  • You

• My father is a businessman, and my mother is a schoolteacher.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Businessman

• The best physicians are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merryman.

  

  Daniel D. Palmer
  • Best
  • Quiet
  • Diet

• When I got my band in 1983, I knew what I had to do. If I'm going to have a big band, they're going to have to sound equally as good as what I'm used to hearing.

  

  Illinois Jacquet
  • Good
  • Band
  • Sound

• If you can build a Facebook page and channel the audience to your website, you can generate revenue via PPC advertisement networks like Google Adwords, Taboola, Yahoo! Bing Network, AdRoll, 7Search, etc.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • You
  • Google
  • Website

• Every single unfortunate thing that happens, including, for instance, the murder of my parents, I am responsible for. I am responsible for being the son of two people who got murdered. I didn't cause their murder. But if I'm suffering because of it, it's my karma that I have manifested in this lifetime in this particular set of circumstances.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • People
  • Parents
  • Single

• And if I'm being honest, I don't think I have an ex-boyfriend who would have something mean to say about me.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Think
  • Me
  • Mean

• Hector Lavoe is the greatest of all time. Marc Anthony is the second greatest.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Time
  • Greatest
  • Second

• We all have a cross-gender character: Every woman has a man that they can play, and every man has a woman that they can play.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Character
  • Man
  • Woman

• Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.

  

  Irene Peter
  • Different
  • Change
  • Mean

• Every day without fail one should consider himself as dead. There is a saying of the elders that goes, 'Step from under the eaves and you're a dead man. Leave the gate and the enemy is waiting.' This is not a matter of being careful. It is to consider oneself as dead beforehand.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • Man
  • Day
  • Waiting

• I wanted to play a TV detective because it's a rite of passage; I wanted to experience every area of acting. I haven't done comedy or as much Shakespeare as I had intended.

  

  Olivia Williams
  • Done
  • Experience
  • Comedy

• And people who know me would tell you that away from hockey I'm really not that competitive.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • People
  • Me
  • Hockey

• I think somehow men understand other men's need for respect differently than they understand it for a woman. I'm disappointed to have to say that, but I think it's undeniably true.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Men
  • True
  • Respect

• ...something can be so much more than the parts it took to make it, and why people need things around them that lift them above their lives and make them feel the miracle of living.

  

  Wendelin Van Draanen
  • People
  • Why
  • Miracle

• I'm quite sure that all true professional artists, of every description, in all walks of life, whether their craft is painting, music, sculpture, medicine or anything, have one primary concern - mankind.

  

  Chico Hamilton
  • Life
  • Music
  • True

• I like roles of people who can overcome things because there's strength in that and an arc - and roles where they start in one place, and toward the end of the script they end up in a completely different place, so you've seen this growth and some humanity in the role.

  

  Olivia d'Abo
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• Acceptance and its counterpart, understanding, are crucial to achieving relationship harmony. It is sacred love, the highest form of love, and like most things worth striving for in life, it requires patience, commitment, personal responsibility, and practice.

  

  Arielle Ford
  • Relationship
  • Responsibility
  • Practice

• Reagan never cottoned to dictators. He was pure in this notion in a true belief that democracy was the best solution in the world because it spoke to people's hopes and dreams and aspirations, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of speech.

  

  Douglas Brinkley
  • People
  • World
  • True

• Terrorism, as a whole, is - I don't want to say 'taboo,' but it is a very emotional subject.

  

  Bill Goldberg
  • Emotional

• Since we are not permitted to act, we are obliged to know.

  

  Jack Vance