Joe R. Lansdale Quotes
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I just have that sense this is the reason we got Sandra Day O'Connor on the Court in the first place is because Ronald Reagan was running for President.
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I'm the complete opposite of every clean cut, decent-looking guy you could ever think of. Yet, I have the biggest heart in the world.
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I like men who paint or write or do something creative.
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These 'Sports Illustrated' people, they know how to hold a secret.
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Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.
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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
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Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest.
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There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
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I am aware of the sufferings of women in India, which is also the suffering of women in many, many countries on our planet. My heart is filled with empathy and love for them.
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I'm a hybrid, and I kind of like that. Raised by African parents, growing up I lived between Burkina Faso and Stains, a suburb just outside of Paris. In Stains, I had all the cultures in the world on my doorstep, and that opens up your mind.
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Transferring our sovereignty and decisionmaking power to the WTO, to the United Nations, or any other international body is not in the long-term interests of our people.
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I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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I'm still blowing alright, and I still enjoy it which is the main thing.
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I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
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You can run, run, run away from a lot of things in life, but you can't run away from yourself. And the key to happiness is to understand and accept who you are.
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Fashion is killing women's body image of themselves.
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The history of science is rich in example of the fruitfulness of bringing two sets of techniques, two sets of ideas, developed in separate contexts for the pursuit of new truth, into touch with one another.
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I always have one foot in the street, so I know not everyone wants to dress like the women they see in music videos.
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I like to have a lot of fun. I just don't see myself as being sexy. It's more sass - more attitude - than sex.
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In an hour, you'll be in hell or glory.
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The people who review my books, generally, are kind of youngish culture writers who aspire to write books. When someone writes a book review, they obviously already self-identify as a writer. I mean, they are. They're writers, they're critics, and they're writing about a book about a writer who's a critic. So I think it's really hard for people to distance themselves from what they're criticizing.
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He [Hemingway] used a stand-up work place he had fashioned out of the top of of a bookcase near his bed. His portable typewriter was snugged in there and papers were spread along the top of the bookcase on either side of it. He used a reading board for longhand writing.
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Christ's strength is manifest in our weakness, so if we had everything together there would be no need for Him.
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I never got a degree; I just started writing.
