Jack Vance Quotes
Excellent; all is well. The 'everlasting tedium' exactly countervenes the 'immediate onset of death' and I am left only with the 'canker' which, in the person of Firx, already afflicts me. One must use his wits in dealing with maledictions.
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Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.
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In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well.
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
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It hurts every day when you practice hard, but when this decathlon is over, I got the rest of my life to recuperate. Who cares how bad it hurts?
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If I win the gold medal, I will be set for the rest of my life. The medal itself doesn't give you anything, but it makes you a marketable item. You take it and see what you can do.
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I started working at the age of 2, doing commercials and modeling in New York.
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When we began Qualcomm, it had become quite clear that it was very important to patent new ideas.
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My golf swing is probably the most horrendous you've ever seen. I look like I'm trying to attack the ball.
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Sometimes it's nice just being in your own room and having a quiet night and relaxing and getting ready for the game.
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I'm sharpest early, and though I can rewrite any time, day or night, I'm useless after noon when it comes to writing first draft.
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America is a meritocracy.
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When you have balance in your life, work becomes an entirely different experience. There is a passion that moves you to a whole new level of fulfillment and gratitude, and that's when you can do your best... for yourself and for others.
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No man speaketh, or should speak, of his prince, that which he hath not weighed whether it will consist with that veneration which should be preserved inviolate to him.
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I would be a terrible person to be in a relationship with because I'm either sleeping or at the theater.
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The compulsively readable events of my life occurred mainly in infancy, and it's been pretty humdrum ever since.
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It took five days to drive to Los Angeles by myself. I listened to Abbey Road for six hours at a time and watched the desert open up before me again and again. I saw the sun set and rise at the Grand Canyon, and I sang out over the cliffs, picked up tumble weeds along the way and threw them in the back of my car.
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You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure.
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One of the enemies of creativity and innovation, especially in relation to our own development, is common sense.
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I love myself. Anything that has my name I'm tickled to death.
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Excellent; all is well. The 'everlasting tedium' exactly countervenes the 'immediate onset of death' and I am left only with the 'canker' which, in the person of Firx, already afflicts me. One must use his wits in dealing with maledictions.
