Jack Vance Quotes
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And our dreams are who we are.
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Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.
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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
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India is a democracy; it is in our DNA.
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You won't see me at a microphone singing and tapping my foot. I spend a lot of money on sets, costumes and sound. I believe people deserve a show. I'm a singer, musician, dancer. I work hard, and I'm soaking wet when I come off.
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As soon as you get over caring what people think, you can have a nice time.
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For me, it's hard to keep up with trends. I just go for the roles and movies that I feel I could add value to, or contribute to, that I feel I could portray.
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In Denmark, we're making 20 films a year. If I'm showing up in even two of those, people will get tired of me really fast.
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The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out.
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With 'The Social Network,' I got into it at first because frankly I thought there was a cool courtroom drama to be had with the intellectual properties. And then what further drew me in was that the most extraordinary social networking device ever created was created by the world's most antisocial person. I liked that story.
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New York was at the forefront of rap, so because of all the great people who have gone before me, being a rapper from Queens, I have to live up to those standards. I'm basically just a regular guy who says what he feels and likes to joke. I like long walks on the beach... and I love rap.
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I've been married to the same woman for forty years, and whenever people ask us how we managed to stay married for so long, we usually say as one voice, 'What's the secret? Don't get divorced!'
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Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.
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When I was in the ring at the Olympics, it was my father's words that I was hearing, not the coaches'. 'I never listened to what the coaches said. I would call my father and he would give me advice from prison.
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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
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My father is very dry and very quick-witted, and my mother is very silly. It was the perfect combination because I got an education in physical and verbal comedy.
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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.
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You can't hold up a blog; you can hold up a magazine.
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Donald Trump faces a lot of problems.Why go there?
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Dates are great because they're a high-energy fruit with a lot of fiber.
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Lunches don't get free just because you don't see the prices on the menu. And economists don't get popular by reminding people of that.
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The History Of The Universe In Three Words CHAPTER ONE Bang! CHAPTER TWO sssss CHAPTER THREE crunch. THE END
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My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays.
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It had been suggested to her that the flaw lay not in the universe but in herself.
