Jack Vance Quotes
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The conclusion that I have come to is that actually, no religion, whether it's Islam, Christianity or any idea based on scripture or texts, is a religion of 'anything,' really.
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There's a long history of private-company cooperation with the NSA that dates back to at least the 1970s.
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I write because I like to make things and the only things I am good at making things with are words.
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Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.
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A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
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So I have this ability, if I may say so, to spot talent.
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The world is a very abnormal place.
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It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
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Jay Cutler, he's a fine quarterback, but I think at times he gets a little nicked up.
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The thing is, a lot of our vets come home and they feel displaced, and they don't feel like their voice matters, so for me to be a spokesman and have that honor to educate America about who we are and what we are, it's like I'm doing my job.
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It was a decent New Year's, but it took a million officers to make it so.
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I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera.
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Football is my true love. I played with boys until I was 11 and then for a girls' club in Middlesbrough until I was 16.
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If I fall, pick up the flag, kiss it, and keep on going.
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Everywhere, people are discovering that doing things more slowly often means doing them better and enjoying them more. It means living life instead of rushing through it. You can apply this to everything from food to parenting to work.
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All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.
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It takes a lot of intellect to have faith, which is why so many people only have religiosity.... I'm against people taking the Bible absolutely literally, rather than letting some of it be real fantasy, like Jonah... Faith is best expressed in story.
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Brussels is a gay little city that lies as bright within its girdle of woodland as any butterfly that rests upon moss.
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I didn't fight this fight for the blacks, the whites or the Spanish, I fought the fight for the people. We're all God's children. I don't see color. I'm not a racist When I look at Gerry Cooney, I just see a man trying to take my head off.
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I wasn't born into a family that told me that I wasn't capable of what my brother was capable of. I can do anything.
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Acting is secondary - I don't feel like it's going to stick around because it's not something I want to do forever. My art has always been my top priority and I have far more experience in that field than I do in film.
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But I am a sly and wicked narrator. If there is a secret to be plumbed for your benefit, Dear Reader, I shall strap on a head-lamp and a pick-ax and have at it.
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'All is mutability, and thus your three hundred terces has fluctuated to three.'
