Joe R. Lansdale Quotes
My father was the first person to introduce me to self-defense and martial arts, which I've been doing all my life now.
Joe R. Lansdale
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In winter, the Icelanders told the tales of the brave men of old in their families, and so the tradition was handed on from father to son, the same stories told every winter, till all the particulars became well known.
Sabine Baring-Gould
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Our nano-quadrotor robots are made to be as lightweight as possible: less than a fifth of a pound and palm-sized. They can do an aerial backflip in half a second, accelerate at two Gs, and fly rotor blade to rotor blade in three-dimensional formations - and they do all this autonomously.
Vijay Kumar
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Each time I seem to go through one of life's huge things, I want to play music.
Katey Sagal
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.
Vanessa Paradis
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Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.
Victor Hugo
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When your life is as precious as all our lives are, then it needs to be kept precious and looked after and treated well. And that is not something we should be sharing with a wider audience.
Saffron Burrows
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A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Who has connections to Connecticut? That's where rich people go to live the rest of their life in the woods.
Patrice O'Neal
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Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
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In my music and my life, I'm honest with my feelings, and people appreciate that. That's just the way I am.
La India
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When it comes to literal nourishment, the food we eat, life begets life.
Victoria Moran
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Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation.
George Bernard Shaw
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Workers who come to the U.S. see their wages and their standard of living boosted sharply simply by crossing the border. That's a good thing, and one of the best arguments for immigration reform, even if you'll rarely hear a politician make it.
James Surowiecki
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'I think Kathaos fears no divine forces.''Then he’s a brave man.''Oh, men make their own gods,' Yannul remarked. 'I have a god with a fat belly, and a house full of expensive women to attend his every need, and I call him Yannul the Lan in Five Years from This.'
Tanith Lee
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I would like to think that Ben and myself have begun a partnership that will take us into different areas of music that we can continue to write, enjoy and keep me involved with music other then what I do with RUSH.
Geddy Lee Weinrib
Rush
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Every time I got 'Amazing Spider-Man' or 'Fantastic Four' or another book firmly on the rails, we got pulled into some big event book or crossover and it cost momentum and messed badly with the pacing and structure of the book.
J. Michael Straczynski
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My father was the first person to introduce me to self-defense and martial arts, which I've been doing all my life now.
Joe R. Lansdale
