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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Women are builders of civil society. We are the ones who are going to build it. You know why? We have no choice. Either you shut up, and you are humiliated, or you do what I'm doing. You scream.
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For all the casual slurs about 'cultural imperialism', British imperialists were more interested in other cultures than anybody before or since, and, if they hadn't dug it up and taken care of it, we'd know hardly anything about the ancient world. What's important about a nation's past is not what it keeps walled up in the museum but what it keeps outside, living and breathing as every citizen's inheritance.
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If you want to liberate a government, give them the Internet.
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Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.
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'The contingency is remote.' (This is also a Jeeves quote in the PG Wodehouse Novels)
