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.
Jackie Robinson -
Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is.
Fairfax Cone -
My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
Jack Davenport -
Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
Samuel Johnson -
It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.
Forest Whitaker -
I've always kept a low profile, and I like it that way.
A. James Clark
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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.
Oscar Wilde -
I don't ever want to feel complacent.
Taraji P. Henson -
I graduated from the University of Whatever.
Dana Snyder -
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.
Xavier Dolan -
When I first ran for Congress in 1998, people counted me out.
Tammy Baldwin -
Failure is a part of success.
Hank Aaron
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I want to move people the way Edith Piaf did.
Laura Branigan -
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.
Bar Refaeli -
The self-made man that some people believe is a myth? It could be, because you do it on the backs of other people.
Oscar Isaac -
When I hear traditional family values raised, I hear that effort once again to re-establish the man as head and master of his family. Who had the, not only the right, but the obligation to discipline his wife and children to keep them in line?
Patricia Ireland -
It is everybody's wish to work with Mani Ratnam.
Ram Charan -
I think we're doing the right things for the right reasons. We're not doing it to sell products. We're not doing it to be popular. We're doing it because in our judgment these stories are important to do, and at this length and this much depth.
Bob Edwards
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I have over a hundred clocks. I've got fancy clocks and clocks from all over the world that people made for me.
Flavor Flav -
And beyond that, the next issue is how do we guarantee one of these weapons, not necessarily this missile, but nuclear weapons ends up in the hands of Al Qaeda or some other terrorist group.
Lawrence Eagleburger -
I have no spy stories to tell, because I saw no spies. Nor did I understand, at that time, any opposition between American and Russian national interest.
Elia Kazan -
Count me not your friend but the enemy of your enemies.
Jack Vance