Jack Vance
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VANCE JOY I really honestly can't see myself as a lawyer. It's pretty much safe to say I'll never ... VANCE JOY I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs. VANCE JOY Ralph Fiennes and Edward Norton are among my favorite actors. VANCE JOY I like to get suggestions on what to read. I'll look at Twitter, people I like, people I admire.... VANCE JOY Sometimes when you're writing a song and that song comes into your head, it definitely comes fro... VANCE JOY When I go to a gig and I hear a song that I really like, a song that hits home to me or hits an emot... VANCE JOY VANCE HAVNER VANCE HAVNER VANCE HAVNER VANCE HAVNER VANCE HAVNER VANCE HAVNER VANCE HAVNER Both the enterprise traditional access point and the SOHO (small office/home office) segments surpas... AARON VANCE In 2005, the market for Network Security solutions surpassed the $1 billion dollar-mark in each and ... AARON VANCE We are seeing phenomenal growth in the SSL VPN market, with an average year-over-year increase of 40... AARON VANCE They've been hovering right around the same revenue figure for several quarters now. AARON VANCE I know too well howTALIA VANCE VANCE PALMER VANCE HAVNER VANCE PACKARD VANCE PALMER MICHAEL VANCE VANCE HAVNER VANCE HAVNER VANCE HAVNER VANCE HAVNER VANCE PALMER VANCE LAW VANCE HAVNER MICHAEL VANCE VANCE HAVNER VANCE HAVNER VANCE HAVNER VANCE HAVNER VANCE HAVNER VANCE HAVNER VANCE HAVNER VANCE HAVNER VANCE HAVNER VANCE HAVNER You have to listen to adversaries and keep looking for that point beyond which it's against thei... CYRUS VANCE VANCE HAVNER ...intricate stone carvings and wood trim gave the law school an almost medieval feel. You'd even so... J.D. VANCE I remember the first time Bill Fichtner and I had a scene together. I've seen him in a few movie... CHRIS VANCE Are there any good guys on 'Prison Break?' I suppose there might be. I can't honestly sa... CHRIS VANCE VANCE HAVNER My proposal to re-establish diplomatic relations - not necessarily friendly relations, but diplomati... CYRUS VANCE MICHAEL VANCE VANCE PACKARD In the past two decades, what is abnormal in the discourse among nations has been accepted as normal... CYRUS VANCE The process has worked extremely well and Republicans support it. When the Legislature drew the line... CHRIS VANCE This is a person who is going to achieve bigger things in the future. She will be on the ballot one ... CHRIS VANCE Sims did terribly badly (Tuesday). I think this is the most competitive county executive's race we'v... CHRIS VANCE Sims should be very worried this morning, CHRIS VANCE We will have to vigorously play defense, CHRIS VANCE The only effect it could have is burning out our donors. I don't think that's going to happen. The p... CHRIS VANCE We had no business being in the golf course business. We are all developers in our previous occupati... DOUG VANCE 2005 was another strong year in both the Enterprise and Consumer Wireless LAN markets, growing 13 pe... AARON VANCE Dallas is an extraordinary place in it's own right. The first thing about Dallas that you can... CHRIS VANCE I told (Mobley), 'We're leaving at halftime if Kentucky is losing. Kentucky does better when I'm at ... MIKE VANCE Slowing down is sometimes the best way to speed up. MIKE VANCE VANCE HAVNER Everybody here is an environmentalist. CHRIS VANCE Ninety-five percent of the wheat we grind is from North Dakota. We do bring in small amounts from Mi... VANCE TAYLOR Today people look at me, at my job and my Ivy League credentials, and assume that I’m some sort of... J.D. VANCE Barack Obama strikes at the heart of our deepest insecurities. He is a good father while many of us ... J.D. VANCE Our offense was in sync in the second quarter. We were passing the ball well and moving it down the ... VANCE COOKSEY VANCE HAVNER U.S. Policy toward the establishment of Israeli settlements in the occupied territories is unequivoc... CYRUS VANCE Vance's Rule of 2 1/2: Any military project will take twice as long as planned, cost twice as much, ... CYRUS VANCE VANCE HAVNER Men love everything but righteousness and fear everything but God VANCE HAVENER VANCE PACKARD Here, it's taken for granted ? antibiotics, drainage equipment. There, as a surgeon, we have to use ... VANCE MOSS VANCE HAVNER We drove the ball into the alleys, and that brings a lot of confidence. VANCE ARNOLD We still don't have a lot of experience on the mound. We're trying to get kids innings and try to co... VANCE ARNOLD Tim did a great job of competing and hitting his spots. He's one of those kids, you tell him what yo... VANCE ARNOLD Conference-wise, we should be right back up there as one of the top two in the conference. Even afte... VANCE ARNOLD From the outfield to the infield, we can pretty much throw a ball and get it anywhere pretty quickly... VANCE ARNOLD Cameron's been hitting the ball real well. He's been playing great defense as well. We're really exc... VANCE ARNOLD It was more of a true league. It was a good chance for some of our newer varsity guys like Tyler Hig... VANCE ARNOLD Taylor did a great job on the mound. We hadn't pitched Taylor in a while and he came in and got thei... VANCE ARNOLD This group has hit the ball real well. They go opposite field well and they're not afraid to swing t... VANCE ARNOLD With the fall ball experience and the warm weather, we're ahead of where we were last year. We've be... VANCE ARNOLD VANCE HAVNER Going back to the early '90s, the mill ground 90 percent durum and 10 percent hard red spring wheat.... VANCE TAYLOR The statement attributed to Mr. Reiss has been mischaracterized as a threat, ... It was not. The sta... CYRUS VANCE VANCE LAW We were 9-17 my sophomore year. We made a vow to turn this program around. This year our goal was 20... VANCE COOKSEY You have to listen to adversaries and keep looking for that point beyond which it's against their in... CYRUS VANCE I'd never rule anything out, to be honest with you, whether it be the small of volunteer status ... VANCE MCALLISTER Against Brown, we know what's on the line: the Ivy League title. LAUREN VANCE One of the really tough things is figuring out what questions to ask. Once you figure out the questi... ASHLEE VANCE We were filling a void. VANCE MOSS VANCE HAVNER The Republican Party needs both the moderates and the conservatives, ... If the party is viewed as t... CHRIS VANCE ...Mom equated money with affection...but I never cared about the money. I just wanted her to be hea... J.D. VANCE Overall sales and earnings growth were below our expectations, reflecting performance issues as well... VANCE COFFMAN The defense of human rights has been, and continues to be, one of the principal goals of the foreign... CYRUS VANCE In short, the time has come for us as American and Iranian citizens to apply our mutual energy, inte... CYRUS VANCE We were his last resort. And when we evaluated this kid, the colonel cried. VANCE MOSS Everybody wanted a piece of Billy the Kid's rock. VANCE STEVENS VANCE PACKARD Dino has pledged to the party, and he did that a long time ago. He will stand by us and help retire ... CHRIS VANCE By all means. If they want to come with their lawn chairs, they are certainly welcome to that. VANCE AGEE I would say gently and respectfully, they need to make up their minds. They need to fish or cut bait... CHRIS VANCE It was nasty. The nastiest one, though, was when he struck out Lane on a fastball down. That's where... VANCE WILSON VANCE PACKARD This will remove a great cause of tension in the party, CHRIS VANCE Every day, our staff and volunteers provide a comforting presence to individuals and families facing... NANCY VANCE I miss the banter with friends and family, which more often than not takes place within the confines... CHRIS VANCE Something went wrong with my right arm. I no longer could throw hard, and it hurt like the dickens e... DAZZY VANCE How much of our lives, good and bad, should we credit to our personal decisions, and how much is jus... J.D. VANCE What separates the successful from the unsuccessful are the expectations that they had for their own... J.D. VANCE VANCE LAW We all had the same goals in mind and we fund a lot of the same charities. We thought this was an id... DOUG VANCE We are making decisions like this, out of the ordinary. You don't see other foundations do things li... DOUG VANCE We knew we could do a good job and it would be something special that the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic ... DOUG VANCE They couldn't get their funds, couldn't complete their funding. So we focused on another charitable ... DOUG VANCE I'm ecstatic. I've been working on it for 10 months and I'm ready to see the green flag drop for the... VANCE AGEE Lindsay was a teenager...at the height of that weird mixture of thinking you know everything and car... J.D. VANCE It's just one of those quirks that comes up in the schedule and you have to deal with it. This shoul... VANCE BELEW We already have home delivery service of our milk and dairy products that have been very well-receiv... MARK VANCE I want him to learn to appreciate music. This was a last minute thing we decided to do just for the ... LAUREN VANCE I think today was the big day. I think we really realized that we needed to come out in the first ha... LAUREN VANCE We were kind of playing catch up. We were kind of satisfied to just stay with them. LAUREN VANCE We are all disappointed in our 2-4 record right now. As a whole, our team has been inconsistent this... LAUREN VANCE It's nice that we've all been together dancing from the beginning of the year. MALLORY VANCE The routine is awesome. We get a good reaction from the crowd. MALLORY VANCE It was a very difficult contest this year. The judging was very hard. JOE VANCE We are very excited about the ratings. We worked hard all year and we had a lot of community support... JOE VANCE In the comics, it always seems like they are trying to saveASHLEE VANCE Gray can really throw ball well. He's impressive, especially being a sophomore. VANCE BELEW We are deeply disappointed with this reduced outlook for our company. This level of earnings and cas... VANCE COFFMAN We spent a lot of time in practice learning who he was. So we were ready for him every time he got t... VANCE COOKSEY (Fatigue) certainly could've been a factor late in the game. It took a lot of energy having to fight... VANCE DOWNS She's always the focus of the other teams defense. She makes every one around her better. VANCE LEE They all wanted 15-20 copies of the product. VANCE MAHAN This is going to be an event talked about for months. VANCE PASCUA He's an institution, if you wanna know the truth. He's as good a person as you'll ever meet. VANCE WALBERG When people read 'Breitbart' every single day and convince themselves that Barack Obama is a... J. D. VANCE It's hard to strike that balance: to tell a kid that life isn't fair, but also recognize and... J. D. VANCE I didn't come from the elites. I didn't come from the Northeast or from San Francisco. I cam... J. D. VANCE I have never felt out of place in my entire life. But I did at Yale. J. D. VANCE The increasing segregation we have in our country geographically and culturally has led to these pre... J. D. VANCE We're very good at talking about the individual in American politics and excellent at talking ab... J. D. VANCE Every two weeks, I'd get a small pay-check and notice the line where federal and state income ta... J. D. VANCE Trump brings power to those who hate their lack of it, and his message is tonic to communities that ... J. D. VANCE There are definitely - there is definitely an element of Donald Trump's support that has its bas... J. D. VANCE Trump talks like a guy at a bar in West Virginia. Trump talks like my dad sitting around the dinner ... J. D. VANCE Liberals have to get more comfortable with dealing with the poor as they actually are. I admire thei... J. D. VANCE If you're graduating from high school, and you come from a lower income family, you're effec... J. D. VANCE The evangelical Christian faith I'd grown up with sustained me. It demanded that I refuse the dr... J. D. VANCE I think running a small nonprofit to work on the opioid crisis and bring interesting new businesses ... J. D. VANCE It would be great if people returned to areas of the country that need talented people with good eco... J. D. VANCE
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