Joe R. Lansdale Quotes
I remember going to a theater once, and there was a stairway that wound its way out to the back. And I was very young, a small child, and I said to my mom, 'Why are those people going up those stairs?' And she said, 'You know, I don't know how to tell you this, I don't know how to explain it, but it won't always be that way, because it's wrong.'
Joe R. Lansdale
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Cam Newton
The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.
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Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
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Octavia Spencer
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that we should be separate, all right, but in this separate state or separate existence, the black man should be given the opportunity and the incentive to do for himself what the white man has done for himself.
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When you don't have one that you throw for strikes - they are good hitters - they can cancel out one pitch and go to another. Now I have four pitches. If one's not working, I've got three others. It makes the game totally different.
Drew Pomeranz
Ever since I was a little kid, my ears and my hands would talk to each other very well, so I could pick up instruments quite easily.
Jack Garratt
You have to have passion for anything you do. Whether it's sports, whether it's music, whether you want to be Mother Theresa, you have to have passion for what it is you do, or what's the point in getting up in the morning and getting out of bed?
Zakk Wylde
Black Label Society
I love every aspect of show business and that includes both the show part of it and the business part of it.
Kristy Swanson
Congress is hard to deal with, dealing with, you know, multiple parliaments and commissions and unions and this and that and the other, that's very complicated.
Barack Obama
I remember going to a theater once, and there was a stairway that wound its way out to the back. And I was very young, a small child, and I said to my mom, 'Why are those people going up those stairs?' And she said, 'You know, I don't know how to tell you this, I don't know how to explain it, but it won't always be that way, because it's wrong.'
Joe R. Lansdale
