Jack Vance Quotes
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But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.
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You can't talk of the dangers of snake poisoning and not mention snakes.
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Why did I elope with my husband after knowing him for only four months? I wish I could show people the picture of the two of us that night and have them feel what I felt. But it's just a picture. It can only capture how things looked, not how they felt.
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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
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I'm definitely a foodie.
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Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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People go to extraordinary lengths to get films made.
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The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.
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New York City is my favorite city in the world.
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There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.
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Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.
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I've had a hip replacement, I've beaten cancer, I had my hand operation, and I stopped drinking. Something inside of me just went, 'I'm done.'
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Weight used to be an issue. I was always fat as a child. And everyone used to tell me, 'You've got such a pretty face; why don't you lose some weight?' Over the years I've realised that my body is a certain type, and I have learned to accept it.
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Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.
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I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.
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He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
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Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.
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I have a great need for affection from an audience. I don't know whether this is because I had such a tough life when I was a child.
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There is behavioral ecology, which looks closely at the difference different ecologies make to behavior and other features of animals and humans. There's evolutionary individual psychology, there's evolutionary social psychology. In Darwin's terms, evolution couldn't exist without variation, and variation is important in behavioral genetics. And so on, and so on. There are so many instances in which evolution actually sharpens the precision, I think, with which one can find out the importance of differences. We're interested in differences as well as commonalities.
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Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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The Nobel award occasions a unique celebration of the vision of science by the public at large. The prestige the prize confers today is largely due to the extraordinary diligence of the Nobel committees.
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I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
