Jack Vance Quotes
Dismount and kneel before me, that I may strike off your head with fullest ease. You shall die in this tragic golden light of sunset.
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Gee I don't know, I just want to get home.
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Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.
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I think of myself as a producer who tries to bring the best out of everyone, whether that be an artist, songwriter or a publicist.
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May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.
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I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.
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Together, Amazon and I are giving readers what they want - inexpensive, professional ebooks.
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I think the thing I miss most in our age is our manners. It sounds so old-fashioned in a way. But even bad people had good manners in the old days, and manners hold a community together, and manners hold a family together; in a way, they hold the world together.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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A lot has happened over the years. And while this nation has been tested by war, and it's been tested by recession and all manner of challenges - I stand before you again tonight, after almost two terms as your president, to tell you I am more optimistic about the future of America than ever before.
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The biggest thing the money Infosys brought me is the freedom to do what I want. And what I want is to give millions more the opportunities I had.
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In most cases, my visits to the West are for promotion of human values and religious harmony.
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You'll see a lot more blood in 'Saw' movies or something like that than you will in either of the 'Last House' movies. I kind of think it owes more to 'The Virgin Spring' which is the original source material, the Bergman movie.
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To all the parents out there, thank you for allowing me to be a role model for your children. I really, really do not take that for granted.
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Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.
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I think most of the people, once you see a Kiss show, you kinda get spoiled because I don't think there's anybody out there that's doing a bigger or a better show than us.
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Japan is an important ally of ours. Japan and the United States of the Western industrialized capacity, 60 percent of the GNP, two countries. That's a statement in and of itself.
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The third day, I knew it was over. But I tried to make it last for three months.
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Children know the truth: love is not an emotion, love is behavior.
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The Hindu civilisation is a diabolical contrivance to enslave humanity. Its proper name would be infamy.
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Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
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All those who try to go it sole alone, Too proud to be beholden for relief, Are absolutely sure to come to grief.
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Dismount and kneel before me, that I may strike off your head with fullest ease. You shall die in this tragic golden light of sunset.
