Joe R. Lansdale Quotes
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Do you know why I don't like doing press? I have trouble condensing things. I'd rather have a conversation.
Parker Posey -
Certainly by the time I was in seventh grade, I knew I had to have a long education if I wanted to become an astronomer, but I figured I'd try it, and if I didn't get far enough, I could always end up teaching in high school or math or physics.
Nancy Roman -
The tabernacle of unity hath been raised; regard ye not one another as strangers.
Baha'u'llah -
But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis, and the process of striking the shackles from the slave was accomplished in a single hour.
Wendell Willkie -
If you're trying to understand why it is that certain things happen in Sacramento and certain things don't, at the end of the day, it comes down to the issue of incentives: We do what we're incentivized to do.
Gavin Newsom -
I definitely have my opinions that I'm very vocal about and I'm not afraid to put them out there.
Adam Lambert
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I keep seeing in the papers that I am good friends with Samantha Cameron. I've never met her in my life.
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
When I first came to the Bay area, I worked in Silicon Valley in the early to mid-'90s, and I think what mattered then was our ability as designers to create a vision around people's ideas.
Yves Behar -
If the government would like to hire my services to maximize value for their stake, they should approach me. No problem.
Dan Gertler -
I learned early that I had to work harder than the white kids and harder than the boys.
Queen Latifah -
It's always about 'what have you done for me lately.' As players we see what is going on.
Malik Jackson -
I've dated a number of 'mama's boys.'
Gabrielle Union
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There's always a dinner to go to. There're always loads of people around. I was having fun working with my friends. For a while it all just kind of rolled together in a great way.
Kate Moss -
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.
Ralph W. Sockman -
My dad had premature gray. I was always the one with the most energy, the one who continued to practice longer. I ran up and down the stairs of different stadiums. I didn't feel the need to cover up the fact that I was losing my hair or it was graying. When you're on a team, age is only a factor when you're talking in the locker room.
Cal Ripken, Jr. -
I grew up really close to Alabama, about 10 minutes from the Alabama line. We'd make trips to Alabama, and I feel at home there.
Sam Hunt -
Regardless of who you are or who you like, love is love.
Dan Feuerriegel -
I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable.
Pamela Hansford Johnson
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Dipping a cockroach in ink and having it scamper around the page would have left more legible traces to the average reader.
Colin Cotterill -
The 2000s were marked by terrorism and a bipartisan desire to fight it.
Ari Fleischer -
What reason is there that he which laboreth much, and, sparing the fruits of his labor, consumeth little, should be more charged than he that, living idly, getteth little and spendeth all he gets, seeing the one hath no more protection from the commonwealth than the other?
Thomas Hobbes -
Most awards, you know, they don't give you unless you go and get them - did you know that? Terribly discouraging.
Barbra Streisand -
I like to be with my partner in the bed, to ride my Norton - and maybe it doesn't like me, and that's why I'm on the floor so often -, to play sports, to be with my friends and chat. And nature. It's wonderful to be lost in the desert, or between the waves over a surf board. I'm a life lover.
Keanu Reeves -
I sold my first story when I was 21 in 1973.
Joe R. Lansdale