Joe R. Lansdale Quotes
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Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.
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I'm very open-minded.
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It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.
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I had this dream in my head of, if I got hired by 'SNL, what that moment would be like. And I dreamed that I would, like, collapse on the sidewalk and cry to the heavens. I got this call, and it didn't happen naturally. But I did it anyway because I wanted to have that moment. So I did collapse.
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The doctrine of original sin claims that all men sinned in Adam; but whether they did or whether it is merely a fact that all men sin does not basically affect the problem of suffering.
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I'm just trying to approach what I make with as much respect and research as I can, and just make it with a good heart.
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I would love to be employed for the rest of my life... But what I would want to do is things that would frighten me, things that would scare me. I've never done that before; can I do that, can I show them that I can do it?
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Being honest with you, it's not the 'great' wall of China. It's an all right wall. It's the 'All Right Wall of China.'
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There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being.
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I was on the cover of a lot of magazines, and there were compliments about beauty and fashion and what I was wearing. Man, if you get locked into that, you can lose your freedom as an actress.
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I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors.
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It's not what other people believe you can do; it's what you believe you can do.
Gail Devers
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I hate shopping. I don't go shopping. If I do, I run in and out.
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On average, people should be more skeptical when they see numbers. They should be more willing to play around with the data themselves.
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If we can remain present and deal with the moment in front of us, no matter what our battle, then if we lose, we'll know that ultimately we weren't supposed to win that battle in the first place.
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Two out of my three cats follow me around like furry little stalkers. It's such a nice ego boost.
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I have always read that the world, both land and water, was spherical, as the authority and researches of Ptolemy and all the others who have written on this subject demonstrate and prove, as do the eclipses of the moon and other experiments that are made from east to west, and the elevation of the North Star from north to south.
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My epitaph? My epitaph will be, 'Curiosity did not kill this cat'.
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I call my music the healing music… It makes the blind feel that they can see, the lame feel that they can walk, the deaf and dumb that they can hear and talk.
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Politics, as a practice, whatever its profession, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
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If you're driving, don't forget your car.
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I think I built my reputation by not worrying about it.
