Jack Vance Quotes
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I spent 250 to 300 days of every year on the road. But in the end, I felt something was missing. I needed to be anchored so I could concentrate, so in 2000, I established a new methodology - the one I use today. I spent the week in my office and travelled every weekend, even at Christmas.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist -
When I think of influential females in hip-hop, my mind goes to Foxy Brown, hands down.
Action Bronson -
I'm probably borderline OCD. I insist on having all objects at right angles to each other. So a fork has to be at a right angle to the knife on the table. The salt and pepper pots have to be placed close together. Only recently have I started to notice it's a weird way to behave.
Laura Haddock -
Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped.
Larry Holmes -
I'm highly distractable, and I have too many things on my mind very often. When I'm driving in the city, it drives me so crazy - the city traffic and the parking - I just take cabs everywhere.
Dan Hill -
Workplaces still operate like it's 1962 and one person is always at home, and they are not very good at adjusting for the fact that a majority of women work and take care of children.
Hanna Rosin
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Minor Threat was an important band, believe me that it was important it in my life, but it belongs to an era that no longer exists. I'm not nostalgic. I think music today is much more important, because something can be done about it.
Ian MacKaye -
Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.
Han Suyin -
My mom taught me to live by the three p's: to always be passionate, persistent, and prepared.
Hailee Steinfeld -
No one can control the aging process or the trajectory of illness.
Gail Sheehy -
We all know what it's like to go through growing pains and have awkward moments talking to someone you have a crush on.
Laura Harrier -
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
Victor Hugo
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Everybody is different. Everybody has different styles. Just do it the best way you know how.
Vince Carter -
My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.
Frances McDormand -
I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.
Taylor Swift -
The African American community is so under-served in the entertainment industry.
Lance Reddick -
I'm happy when I have, like, one fan, but the fact that I'm getting fans from different places and different communities, it's really amazing.
Kat Graham -
It is good to learn from the ancients. I'm a bit of an ancient myself. They had a lot of time to think about architecture and landscape.
I. M. Pei
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Surrender, but don’t give yourself away.
Rick Nielsen Cheap Trick -
The Commonwealth is one of three belts I want to win before going for a world title.
Billy Joe Saunders -
I'm free to see things objectively because I don't consider myself American, and I don't consider myself British or Indian. I'm kind of an amalgam or mongrel of a lot of different places and experiences. In a lot of ways it's been a good thing for me. It's enabled me to do what I do on 'The Daily Show.'
Aasif Mandvi -
There was an agent who wanted to book me for Glee. He lied and said I could sing. He was like, "If you need a guy in a wheelchair who has a great voice, I've got your guy!" I was like, "What are you talking about?" .
Zach Anner -
Facing this stuff, in real life is not like school, in school, if you make a mistake you can just try again tomorrow, but out there...when your a second away from being murdered or watching a friend die right before your eyes...you don't know what that's like.
Joanne Rowling -
Die then. This is my cure for sore knees.
Jack Vance