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.
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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.
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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.
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Each time I seem to go through one of life's huge things, I want to play music.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.
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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.
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When it comes to literal nourishment, the food we eat, life begets life.
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I find too often in the wrestling business, you just wrestle, get to the hotel, make your money. Sometimes I have to stop and remind myself to enjoy my life and not just rush through.
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I said on numerous occasions how I feel about my father. I love him with all my heart.
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Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
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Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
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Have you recently been through a challenge, disappointment, break up or disloyalty with somebody in your life? If so, it's important after you've been hurt, to take some time to think like a lion tamer about your pain, so you can tame the possibility of more negativity coming back to bite you again!
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Christians who have influence in political life must feel as individuals responsibility in front of their own faith. And the duty of encouraging laws that are not in contradiction with the Commandments comes within the mission of the Church.
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You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about by yourself.
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I think what I'm going to do is get more balance in my life to still be able to go out and play the hard rock 'n' roll and do what I like to do in music.
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The rise or fall of Shanghai means the birth or death of the whole nation.
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The Internet provides a delivery system for pathological states of mind.
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We love to make records, and we love to tour.
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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.
