Jack Vance Quotes
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In the political system, we are a team; politics and bureaucracy, we are a team. The politicians, bureaucrats and the people, we are a team.
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor.
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I don't run behind authority.
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I'll probably have to open a recording studio at some point because I won't be able to pay the bills.
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Jihad is obligatory for the Muslims.
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As a spectator, you get to watch everything, but I'd much rather be playing than watching. I'll have time to watch later in my career.
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I've been watching politics for 35 or 40 years and you just never know. You can have one person win the Iowa caucus and then the whole picture changes ten minutes later. The same thing can happen again after New Hampshire. I have no idea what's going to happen with our country in the future.
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Funny is not a color. Being black is only good from the time you get from the curtain to the microphone.
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I wrote because I wanted to know what everything was about. My father, before I was born, had been gassed in the first World War, and I wanted to know why there were wars, why people hurt each other, why we couldn't get along together, and what made people tick. That's why I started to write stories.
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Homeric mind is ingenuity, practical intelligence. There is no Rodin-like deep thinking, no mathematical or philosophical speculation. Odysseus thinks with his hands.
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The Maker is the one who is part of what he makes.
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If Gen. Omar el Bashir's government gives me permission to pursue Kony beyond the red line, it will only take me 30 minutes to finish him and his fighters.
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'When it is time to dress, make-up, take your bath and eat, it is time to hurry. Those things have little to do with your future. Don’t waste your time on what cannot guarantee your future; your mirror keeps deceiving you.'
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Everything is a dangerous drug to me except reality, which is unendurable.
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The Way to ſee by Faith is to ſhut the Eye of Reaſon: The Morning Daylight appears plainer when you put out your Candle.
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We went through a hard time, and we had to turn to music as a means to putting food on the table. And we've been doing it ever since. No regrets either.
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I'm lucky I have a fast metabolism... my whole family does... everyone's got a lot of nervous energy so we burn it off.
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I'm not squeamish at all. As a child I dragged a dead squirrel home on my skateboard and cut it open and tried to look at its brain.
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I enjoy trying to figure out the best way to compliment the picture and not overpower it.
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I think we are challenged in how we define humanitarian action today and how we relate to long-term needs. We are also confronted with legitimate expectations from the people who want us to respond far more thoroughly to their basic pleas than we would have done in a much more contained form of conflict.
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Hopefully there will be a day when all comedy is all robots.
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Nothing is more conspicuous than a farting princess.
