Joe R. Lansdale Quotes
In some ways, I don't consider a single Hap and Leonard novel the best, but I consider them my best characters.
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The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
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I don't like possessions.
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The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.
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The civil rights fight was a very important fight.
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The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
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Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.
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I like the idea that you can paint something outdoors, and anyone can see it. It's open to anyone, and people have to deal with it. In the gallery, it's the same 150 people on the San Francisco art scene. There's a dynamic on the street that's definitely more interesting.
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I like the idea of growing old gracefully and full of wrinkles... like Audrey Hepburn.
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Anyone who knows me well will tell you that arrogance is one of my flaws.
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Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and... stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to 'walk about' into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want?
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Debate is healthy and no one in this chamber - starting with me - has a monopoly on being right.
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If people think I look good, it's the make-up.
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Training is my drug. I'm going to be the best I can in and out of the water - train right, eat right - and that is the way it should be.
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Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are several, at least one of them - is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it.
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Playing this game, you cannot have nothing holding you back. If you're thinking, you're wrong automatically.
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It gives a different kind of high when, as an actor, I get to submit myself to the character I play.
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The game is the ultimate significance to me because it is so important to a lot of people. It has left a mark on our culture to be voted as one of the best to ever play.
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I don't think any of us can compete with Cowell. He is the best at what he does.
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South Africa is blessed to have women and men like yourselves who have little to give but give what you have with open hands and open hearts.
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Well, they didn't lack for topics after Hiroshima. Why should 9/11 slow them down? I know it got a lot of press, but it's just a few large buildings and aircraft, it's not like D-Day and the Seige of Berlin.
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For me, it's always a failure of the imagination. I have that anxiety that time is passing, that everything is ultimately fleeting and impermanent. I better take advantage of every single moment.
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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In some ways, I don't consider a single Hap and Leonard novel the best, but I consider them my best characters.
