Jack Vance Quotes
I suspect that the word (art) was invented by second-rate intelligences to describe the incomprehensible activities of their betters.
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Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
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Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.
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Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.
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My mom taught me from a young age to give back and volunteer any chance you get. It was something that I knew, if I made the NFL, I would financially have the ability to do.
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You can't embarrass Joss Whedon, he's got no pride! He fully admits it. 'Oh, it's me. I'm little and goofy.' You can't wound his pride. He's too self-deprecating.
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I live with my family. I moved to L.A. eight years ago, and it's the same room. But I'm looking now. I might get a condo.
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I just respect Kanye as an artist.
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I tell people all the time, 'Don't give up.' We get almost to our blessing, whether you believe spiritually in God or in a good force and an evil force. We get almost to our blessing, and we quit. Don't stop.
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I'm happy pretty well anywhere on this big, beautiful planet.
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In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
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It has an air about it of having strolled in from the street with a few tricks up its sleeve, and if everybody would relax, please, it would do its best to pass the time whimsically.
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I've had situations where producers would be like, 'Could you meet me? Take the train; don't tell your parents.'
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I'm not the perfect model of what an athlete should be, mentally or physically.
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My granddad was a hard worker, and my dad is, too. It was instilled in me as a kid. I never got pocket money; I had to earn it. I had two paper rounds before school, not just one. Wherever I worked, whether it was at football, in the pub, I'd do whatever was asked of me - and more.
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Any good attacker will always beat a defender who's face-marking you.
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Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD. All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.
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The way to a man's heart is through his chest.
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I could walk into anyone's home one time and draw a three-dimensional architectural plan of the inside of their home from memory, but I could not add up a column of numbers.
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When young writers approach me for advice, I remind them, as gently as I can, that they are on their own, with no help available anywhere.
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The truth is far beyond what we can see. Therefore my art is an invitation to comprehend this fact.
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Let me feel now what sharp distress I may.
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I suspect that the word (art) was invented by second-rate intelligences to describe the incomprehensible activities of their betters.
