Joe R. Lansdale Quotes
I was born in the '50s - 1951. So I grew up during that part of the '50s when everything was supposed to be at its best in America, they claimed, and then eased into the '60s.Joe R. Lansdale
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Reading allows me to recharge my batteries.
Rahul Dravid -
When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
Zachary Gordon -
I was in a commercial for the Disney channel. I was the camp leader for the campers.
Olesya Rulin -
For me it's also - the music is equally as important. I mean I think as somebody who writes music, there just has to sort of be the marriage between both.
Katey Sagal -
There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.
Val McDermid -
We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to demand more until we have received the results of our labor.
Samuel Gompers
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I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death.
Walter Reisch -
Manhattan seems pretty developed, you know what I mean? Like, it has peaked in culture.
M.I.A. -
I live by a hill. I began walking it and then I began jogging it and then I began sprinting it.
Tea Leoni -
I just don't watch a lot of TV.
Patrick Wilson -
I think Hispanic community - the values that resonate in our community are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family and patriotism. Do you know the rate of military enlistment among Hispanics is higher than any demographic in this country? And they are also hard work and responsibility.
Ted Cruz -
In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
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Essentially, you have to be aware of a crisis happening: 'Can the company go on if I get hit by a bus?' That's, I think, how you build a great company and something that can scale.
Osman Rashid -
When I watch video, I try to watch the good starts so I can see how my mechanics are in those. Every once in a while, I'll look at video starts that I struggled, and sometimes in those, there is no mechanical problems; it's just, didn't have good stuff that day.
Jacob deGrom -
The sleeplessness is proven; it eradicates your memory.
Gaby Hoffmann -
The only time some people work like a horse is when the boss rides them.
Gabriel Heatter -
I know more than anyone the divergent views about my father.
Park Geun-hye -
I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.
Og Mandino
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Now my favourite pastime is to take a bath with my son.
Orlando Bloom -
Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance.
Mel Brooks -
The image of the unions is still not in tune with where we actually are, which is fifty-fifty men and women, with an increasing number of women at the top. I think it is changing, but I'm not complacent about this.
Frances O'Grady -
It doesn't always make sense to have a token on the blockchain that is both useful and represents ownership - it has to be something where there's a network effect. That's why I cite Facebook as an example of what could be disrupted more so than, say, Amazon - which is bit more centralized and is not exactly a network of users in the same way.
Olaf Carlson-Wee -
Everyone's bodies are different, and we all have different shapes, but it has nothing to do with who you are.
Camila Mendes -
I was born in the '50s - 1951. So I grew up during that part of the '50s when everything was supposed to be at its best in America, they claimed, and then eased into the '60s.
Joe R. Lansdale