Jack Vance Quotes
He adjudicated the case in a manner I still find perplexing, but which must have been equitable, since it pleased no one.Jack Vance
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I don't see myself only as a Somali character. I think of myself as an actor, and if the job fits me and I like the story, I will go for it.
Barkhad Abdi -
In 1941 I finished at Allison Intermediate School (grades 7-9), and started at North High School, commuting by bicycle about 5 miles from home to school.
Vernon L. Smith -
I think it's important for girls to be confident. Believe in yourself and... everybody's hot.
Paris Hilton -
My number one goal is to love, support and be there for my son.
Farrah Fawcett -
I'm not anti-fashion, but I've always had a bit of a punk attitude. That's important, I think. I do my own thing.
Sade Adu -
One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.
Walter Scott
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Even the most embarrassing mishap can be spun into comedic gold.
Zach Anner -
Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.
E. M. Forster -
It's interesting, because I named my first album after my dad because I wanted to find him. My second album was named after my mom because I felt like I learned all my creative talents I learned from her. All the survival stuff, too. And then the next album is 'Maya,' which is not my real name. It's fake.
M.I.A. -
From a population point of view, it's actually very important that as few people as possible get the flu. People getting the flu is not a private matter. The risk for healthy people is really about your friends and neighbors and fellow travelers.
Irwin Redlener -
I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play I feel a little sorrowful that I'll never know the man, or any man of such warm intelligence.
Ian Mcewan -
I first saw the ocean as a kid. We would drive from Arizona in the summer and arrive as the sun was starting to come down over the hill near Laguna in southern California. We would always sing a song, and it was a big joyous family moment when we came over the hill.
Ted Danson
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My dad was one of only four congressmen who supported Reagan.
Rand Paul -
Stepping away from Fun. was both exciting and terrifying.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
One of the most enjoyable things I do at Government House and when I travel around Australia is to talk with children. I tell them about our parliamentary democracy - and I often do that as I'm walking into an Executive Council meeting next door!
Quentin Bryce -
If John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan could negotiate with the Soviet Union, then surely a strong and confident America can negotiate with less powerful adversaries today.
Barack Obama -
Tom Birch is as brisk as a bee in conversation; but no sooner does he take a pen in his hand than it becomes a torpedo to him, and benumbs all his faculties.
Samuel Johnson -
Life? Bah! It has no value. Of cheap things it is the cheapest.
Jack London
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Funding for sports (and the arts) are often the first things facing the chop in difficult times.
Lucy Powell -
If you can conceive something in your mind and believe it to be true, then you can achieve it.
Napoleon Hill -
"I've always thought there was this underlying thing in Paul's "Get Back." When we were in the studio recording it, every time he sang the line "Get back to where you once belonged," he'd look at Yoko."
John Lennon The Beatles -
There are many things I’ve written that I didn’t really understand until a long time later.
Harry Mathews -
He adjudicated the case in a manner I still find perplexing, but which must have been equitable, since it pleased no one.
Jack Vance