Jack Vance Quotes
Damned meddlers. It’s hard to know when their curiosity is official and when it’s just curiosity.
Quotes to Explore
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An egg white omelet with vegetables is one of my favorite breakfasts.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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I open the doors for everybody all the time.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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Someone's career that I admire would have to be Justin Timberlake's because he started off on Disney and he made this huge film career and huge solo music career. I really respect him as an artist.
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I no longer get into stupid thought wormholes about identity and stuff. At one time, I did have some impostor syndrome about acting, but then I remembered I've been doing this since I was little, actually.
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The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
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There's something about music that makes me feel like a different person, that feels like an escape.
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I grew up on a farm in Oregon, an adopted child, with one sibling, and parents the age of all my peers' grandparents. We lived in isolation from the people around us, and it was always a struggle to cope with as a child. The heart can really expire under those conditions. I always felt like I was looking at the world from the outside.
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I can take any truth; just don't lie to me.
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I believe my customer knows her style and knows how to mix and match your style.
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A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.
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What's a dancer's worst enemy? Sometimes it's age, but sometimes it's the dancer themselves.
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The government can't even do a good job of something as simple as running the Post Office. How can it be expected to do a good job with something really important, like educating our children?
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You learn from things that don't go well, and you try to capitalize when they do. You build on those strengths and try to make your weaknesses stronger.
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The blind date that has stood you up: your life.
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Going to the gym wouldn't be on my list of favorite things to do.
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Reality is the leading cause of stress for those in touch with it.
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An illness is a failure to solve a mental or psychological problem in the correct manner . . . The energy that would be used to solve the problem instead is spent maintaining the illness. It is therefore necessary that an attempt be made as soon as possible to solve the problem, which of course must first be discovered by the ego, which has avoided it.
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I enter a whorehouse with the same interest as I do the British museum or the Metropolitan - in the same spirit of curiosity. Here are the works of man, here is an art of man, here is the eternal pursuit of gold and pleasure. I couldn't be more sincere. This doesn't mean that if I go to La Scala in Milan to hear Carmen I want to get up on the stage and participate. I do not. Neither do I always participate in a fine representative national whorehouse - but I must see it as a spectacle, an offering, a symptom of a nation.
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I want the strangeness and weirdness and incomprehensibility of life that art can reflect so well, but I want it to feel like a mystery that is inviting us in. Sagan's great art lesson for me was generosity of wonder and making curiosity contagious.
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Damned meddlers. It’s hard to know when their curiosity is official and when it’s just curiosity.
