Jack Vance Quotes
Kings, like children, tend to be opportunistic. Generosity only spoils them. They equate affability with weakness and hasten to exploit it.Jack Vance
Quotes to Explore
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Picking up a guitar brought a lot of balance into my life.
Sam Hunt -
I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be.
Tab Hunter -
When we talk about change, we, the business leaders, have to implement it. We have to look at what we're not doing and what we should be doing.
Ofra Strauss -
Getting pummelled is better than not playing anything at all.
Laura Robson -
I drink lots of water, and I've been trying to do daily wheatgrass shots, but they're awful, and I have to plug my nose.
Victoria Justice -
Iggy Pop is God, if God looked half that good with his shirt off.
Kate Christensen
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My role models were always the Pacinos and the Oldmans, the guys who get dirty with their characters, and I arrived in L.A. during the big boom of 'Dawson's Creek.' I was getting cast as the boy next door, or the friend of the jock. I thought, 'Did I really have to do all that studying?'
Gabriel Mann -
Disease and ill health are caused largely by damage at the molecular and cellular level, yet today's surgical tools are too large to deal with that kind of problem.
Ralph Merkle -
The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.
Bayard Taylor -
Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.
Zadie Smith -
I always like to play roles where I either love the character or think that it's a story that I can tell better than anyone else. There are always reasons for me to do whatever I do.
Tammy Blanchard -
At about 17, I decided I wanted to take kiteboarding seriously and compete, so my agents were like, 'Just keep sending in a few audition tapes anyway, just for good stuff.'
Maika Monroe
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I want people to learn what democracy means.
Jack Ma -
I don't know how many hills and valleys I've had, how many times I've had to refocus my world and my life and my career.
Patrick Swayze -
I love girl power.
Pam Bondi -
I went out to Mount Kilimanjaro, which I thought was very beautiful, but there were a lot of people there.
Ralph Fiennes -
The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.
Naftali Bennett -
This was something I always dreamed and wanted to be part of, when women's wrestling was freakin' cool, and now it is.
Becky Lynch
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Something different happens to my brain when I put pen to paper: the pace of writing or drawing slows you down and gives you more time for thoughts to come in.
Keri Smith -
Holy humility confounds pride and all the men of this world and all things that are in the world.
Francis of Assisi -
I'm not despairing of love at all.
Andrew Sean Greer -
I don't jog. It makes the ice jump right out of my glass.
Martin Mull -
I fight to prioritize black mothers and black children because we deserve to live in a world where our healing is centered and our lives are treated with dignity, respect, and care.
Patrisse Cullors -
Kings, like children, tend to be opportunistic. Generosity only spoils them. They equate affability with weakness and hasten to exploit it.
Jack Vance