Jack Vance Quotes
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Our music doesn't make many compromises, but we take it into a venue that's larger than people expect.
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I find that with period pieces, you're sort of able to really take advantage of what's around you because prop-wise, wardrobe-wise and location-wise, it's all so specific due to that time.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.
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I choose projects that resonate with me on some personal level and projects that I'm afraid to do. If I'm afraid to do them, then I usually say yes, because it means that I'm not ready to go there and deal with certain aspects of the script. And that means that I need to do it, because the things that scare you only make you better and stronger.
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Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.
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In Washington, I am a leader on the issues that matter to my community, and I think that's what my constituents want, and also I think that's what voters want. Someone who understands them, who wants to represent them, and who works tirelessly every day on behalf of their interests and their values.
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The great object is that every man be armed.
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I feel like, big city or small town, you can relate to following your parents' footsteps or putting your own dreams on the back burner or vices that we get caught up in - that whole cycle. That's not just a small-town thing. That's a life thing.
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The Mormon issue is a real problem in the South; it's a real problem in other parts of the country. But people are not going to say it. People are not going to step out and say, 'I have a problem with Romney because he's Mormon.' What they're going to say is he's a flip-flopper... It's a fact; it's reality.
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I'm from Wisconsin so I always feel a little nauseous about begging and trying to trick people into liking me.
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Warfare against civilians must never be answered in kind. Terror must never be answered with terror.
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I shall from time to time write a small Clue - so that you may be the more thoroughly confounded.
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One could not always put safety up front as the prime goal. Do that, and who would ever achieve anything of note?
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If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won.
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Retire into thyself. The rational principle which rules has this nature, that it is content with itself when it does what is just, and so secures tranquility.
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Inspiration is inbreathing, indwelling, poetry can never be entirely willed. It may be true a poet is given only a single line but that line is a gift from the unconscious, intution, a perception.
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I like to think of criticism as the highest intellectual effort that mankind is capable of, and above all, I like to think of self-criticism as the most difficult attainment of an educated man.
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Real love is more than a physical feeling. If there's even the slightest doubt in your head about a guy, then forget about it. It's not real.
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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Human beings have fabricated the illusion that in the 21st century they have the technological prowess to be independent of nature. Bees underline the reality that we are more, not less, dependent on nature’s services in a world of close to seven billion people.
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A writer who isn't writing is asking for trouble.
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No age or condition is without its heroes. The least incapable general in a nation is its Cæsar, the least imbecile statesman its Solon, the least confused thinker its Socrates, the least commonplace poet its Shakespeare.
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'The contingency is remote.' (This is also a Jeeves quote in the PG Wodehouse Novels)
