Joe R. Lansdale Quotes

Texas is so wrapped up in myth and legend, it's hard to know what the state and its people are really about. Real Texans, raised on these myths and legends, sometimes become legends themselves.

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• Dangerous people with guns are a threat to women.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
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  • Women
  • Guns

• William Lloyd Garrison was up there with Frederick Douglass being thrown off trains and going through what happened in the 1960s in 1840 in Boston.

  

  Rand Paul
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• In order that people who suffer from depression seek treatment without a second thought, the stigmas must further fall until we reach a point in time when that person with leukemia and that person with depression both receive the same level of sympathy and the same level of rigorous treatment. Both people deserve it.

  

  Gayle Forman
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  • Time
  • Fall

• People look at stuff like 'Godzilla' and 'Avengers' and think I only do blockbusters, or however you wanna put it, but in reality, I can make double or triple what I got paid for 'Avengers' by doing other stuff - there are other options, but I don't want to work with this person or that person, and so I don't do it.

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
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  • Reality

• I always get sick of these conversations where people are so obsessed with pixels, with high definition, and even with technology in general. I find it just dull and heartless. And so I wanted to use only the worst machines.

  

  Harmony Korine
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• I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.

  

  Patrick Stewart
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• As far as people whose style interests me, I'd say Grace Kelly, Gwen, Spice Girls, Victoria Beckham, and that nanny called Fran.

  

  Iggy Azalea
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  • Grace

• If you tell me I can't eat something, I'll obsess over it and end up overeating!

  

  Octavia Spencer
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• When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
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• Some people are so busy learning the tricks of the trade that they never learn the trade.

  

  Vernon Law
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• I don't care about what people might call my style. It's just like when people call my music 'jangly,' 'dream,' 'oceanside,' whatever - I don't care. I'm just wearing whatever I can scrap together.

  

  Mac DeMarco
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• Consider well this fact: As long as the German people does not arise and use force directed by its own will, the assassination of the people will continue.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
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• You see bands putting ads in the paper: 'drummer wanted'. I could never be in a set-up like that.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
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• What I observed about my fellow actors was that most gave up very easily.

  

  Harrison Ford
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• I'm always surprised when actors say they don't like sex scenes. It's like a freebie. It's fun to make out with someone. So yes, thumbs up on that.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
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• If you don't stick up for what's yours, and defend what's yours... what are you?

  

  Randy Quaid
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• I didn't know Albert back then - I just learned to play that way. He and I were the only guys that played left-handed. Then left-handed people came from every direction.

  

  Otis Rush
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  • Play

• Liberal judges tend to be expansive about things like equal protection, while conservatives read more into ones like 'the right to bear arms.'

  

  Adam Cohen
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  • Judges

• I don't let a lot of people know about my dad dying on 9/11. It's not a way to introduce yourself. So I never told anybody, and then I would do jokes about it... and I think people thought I was lying about it. Which would be crazy!

  

  Pete Davidson
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• My mother comes from the Dominican Republic, so I have the Latin side in me, and I grew up with Gypsies. But I like any kind of music as long as it's good music.

  

  Cyrille Aimee
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• Emoting songs onscreen comes naturally to me since we do emote in the studio behind the mike as well. But acting in a full-length Bollywood film is a completely different ball game.

  

  Armaan Malik
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• An Irish Airman foresees his Death I Know that I shall meet my fate Somewhere among the clouds above; Those that I fight I do not hate Those that I guard I do not love, My country is Kiltartan Cross, My countrymen Kiltartan’s poor, No likely end could bring them loss Or leave them happier than before. Nor law, nor duty bade me fight, Nor public man, nor cheering crowds, A lonely impulse of delight Drove to this tumult in the clouds; I balanced all, brought all to mind, The years to come seemed waste of breath, A waste of breath the years behind In balance with this life, this death.

  

  William Butler Yeats
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  • Fighting

• Texas is so wrapped up in myth and legend, it's hard to know what the state and its people are really about. Real Texans, raised on these myths and legends, sometimes become legends themselves.

  

  Joe R. Lansdale
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