Jack Vance Quotes
'My clever baton holds your unnatural sorcery in abeyance.'
Jack Vance
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When I was going through puberty, I had all these feelings of being unstable through those years, and being uncontrollably drawn to things of beauty and things that are bad.
Park Chan-wook
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I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute that would be difficult to do if I stayed. I thought I could have a stronger voice as an advocate for space exploration. So I ended up starting my own technology consulting company.
Mae Jemison
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Wikipedia is kind of extreme, where a very, very small group of people contribute pretty much everything.
Adam D'Angelo
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Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit.
Abu Bakar Bashir
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Critics haven't taught me my cricket, and they don't know what my body and mind are up to.
Sachin Tendulkar
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I grew up in Pittsburgh, and regularly, my parents would take us to the Holiday House Supper Club to see acts like Nancy Wilson, Sarah Vaughn, Ben Vereen, Freda Payne, Stephanie Mills, and The Temptations, to name a few.
Tamara Tunie
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I didn't want to get pregnant while commanding an assault helicopter company and, before I knew it, I was deployed and missed out on many of my childbearing years.
Tammy Duckworth
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Generally, I love being part of a project that imparts a positive message, is somehow educational or enlightening, helps to bridge differences, or inspires viewers in some way.
Nazanin Boniadi
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Records were replaced by CDs, and lead type died in favor of computerized fonts. However, each had a 100-year ride of popularity, so you can't feel too bad for them.
Nathan Myhrvold
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Shakespeare is universal.
Harold Bloom
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You get all of your neuroses worked out on stage. I haven't actually played very many nice characters, certainly not on stage. It's not a quality that attracts me.
Patrick Stewart
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For a long time I limited myself to one colour - as a form of discipline.
Pablo Picasso
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For the sophisticated falsificationist a scientific theory T is falsified if and only if another theory T' has been proposed with the following characteristics :
Imre Lakatos
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In Europe and in America, people are now more interested in the cost of quality and in systems of quality-audit. But in Japan, we are keeping very strong interest to improve quality by use of methods which you started....when we improve quality we also improve productivity, just as you told us in 1950 would happen.
W. Edwards Deming
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A large, coarse-skinned young woman but with something of my friend's features, particularly the mouth.
Ada Lovelace
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Cur non ut plenus vitae conviva recedisaequo animoque capis securam, stulte, quietem?
Lucretius
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Life is like an aimless river The time is now again - Ceiling Unlimited (2002)
Neil Peart
Rush
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And so one becomes, or I become, anyway, slightly obsessive, particularly about my health, because you wouldn't want to read the letters people write when you're off and they're disappointed - it's so awful, the guilt one feels for not being there.
Elaine Paige
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A lot of bad music sells a million copies; I don't think it's a good litmus test for whether things are going well.
Ben Lovett
Mumford & Sons
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When we rebound the ball, we're able to do that. We don't want to come down and play a half-court game all the time.
Allen Iverson
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In one of the Welsh counties is a small village called A-----. It is somewhat removed from the high road, and is, therefore, but little known to those luxurious amateurs of the picturesque, who view nature through the windows of a carriage and four.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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We have a lot to gain through furthering stem cell research, but medical breakthroughs should be fundamentally about saving, not destroying, human life. Therefore, I support stem cell research that does not destroy the embryo.
Michael Steele
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
Irving Layton
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'My clever baton holds your unnatural sorcery in abeyance.'
Jack Vance
