Jack Vance Quotes
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I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.
Carine Roitfeld -
I'm a Ninja. I'm not scared of death.
Watkin Tudor Jones -
I think you could ask 10 English people the same question about class and get a very different answer.
Joanne Rowling -
We don't think that we are in a quarrel with anybody. We may have a difference of opinion, but we'll not allow such differences of opinion to grow into a problem that stands in the way of reconstructing the country and regaining the democratic path.
Rafik Hariri -
The thing, when you're down two sets to love, is to stay calm, even though it's hard, because people are freaking out, people are worried for you.
Rafael Nadal -
I'd been going to the Louvre since 1951. I thought I knew Paris and the French, but I didn't really. You know how easy it is to make friends when you are traveling. People are curious about you, you are curious about them. But you never really make friends that way. After the Louvre, I discovered that I have friends now because I have enemies.
I. M. Pei
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Many of depression's symptoms - exhaustion, insomnia, nausea, headaches, weight loss, weight gain - are physical ailments.
Gayle Forman -
It's the way you ride the trail that counts.
Dale Evans -
I have a theory about that, if you have to say something, if you have encourage for one second a prospective acting student - he should not go in to acting.
Dabney Coleman -
I cry a lot, and I have no problem with that at all. Listening to your emotions is part of being alive.
Sam Worthington -
Everything can be going well, but if I'm not writing, I'm not happy. When I'm writing well, I'm like a different person.
Aaron Sorkin -
The ability to convince people of the wackiest notions - and both parties can do it - it's part of the dumbing down of America that's really highly problematic.
Gary Ackerman
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Westerners, more than most Asians, are prone to feelings of fear, self-hatred, and unworthiness.
Jack Kornfield -
I have friends who are movie stars, and I think it's just as hard a job as being a working actor. But it's a different job, and it's not the one I want.
Frances McDormand -
You don't get ulcers from what you eat. You get them from what's eating you.
Vicki Baum -
I enjoy having some boundaries to work within. That's why I generally don't like alternate tunings and stuff like that. I like the boundaries of regular tunings.
J Mascis -
I always write these movies that are far too big for any paying customer to sit down and watch from beginning to end, and so I always have this big novel that I have to adapt into a movie as I go.
Quentin Tarantino -
Ramadan is a celebration of a faith known for great diversity and racial equality.
Barack Obama
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A man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself - like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.
Jean Kerr -
We are never racist against somebody who is very far away. I don't know any racism against the Eskimos. To have a racist feeling, there must be an other who is slightly different from us - but is living close to us.
Umberto Eco -
You're successful if you can get one person to pick it up and put it on the turntable and go, Wow, thanks for writing that!
Dan Fogelberg -
A good deed hidden in silence dies.
Pindar -
He was neither lazy nor incompetent; he merely had occupational claustrophobia.
Jack Vance