Jack Vance Quotes
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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is.
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
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My whole reason for creating a network is literally to bring little pieces of light. It's to continue to spread little pieces of light in the world, to illuminate the possibility of the human spirit.
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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
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It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.
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I've always kept a low profile, and I like it that way.
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Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
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I don't ever want to feel complacent.
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I graduated from the University of Whatever.
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I have struggles in screenwriting that lead me to a third act that's always more or less efficiently wrapped up in a fourth act that's trying to give closure to too many things.
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When I first ran for Congress in 1998, people counted me out.
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We all have our painful pasts we have to get through.
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Failure is a part of success.
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I want to move people the way Edith Piaf did.
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My everyday job is about superficial beauty, but when I'm not working I prefer to work on my inner beauty - I read a lot, I try to learn.
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The self-made man that some people believe is a myth? It could be, because you do it on the backs of other people.
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What I'm attempting to do is to show people that if I can spend some time with very dangerous spiders and snakes and scorpions, then maybe they'll feel different about the spiders and snakes they find around their areas. I don't need people to keep them as pets. I just like them to be respectful and see that everything in nature has its place.
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We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.
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God is a God of systems and predictability and order, and God honors planning.
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In France the music schools are a bit old fashioned. I was more excited about doing my own stuff or to play with my friend in my band, than studying the piano.
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At the height of the first great dot-com boom, Craig Kanarick, then in his early 30s, was running Razorfish, a Web design firm he'd co-founded with an old friend, which at its peak had 2,300 employees in nine countries.
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Count me not your friend but the enemy of your enemies.
