Joe R. Lansdale Quotes
People who grew up on my books are now able to get the point across to others that they're worth reading.
Joe R. Lansdale
Quotes to Explore
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You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.
Wayne Dyer
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'Glee' is one of the very few mainstream outlets that is giving a voice to communities of people that don't necessarily have a loud voice, specifically the gay community. It gives a really positive and forward statement.
Jack Antonoff
Fun.
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We talk about feelings. And about sex. And about bodies, and their gratification, violation, repair, decoration, deferred, maybe permanently deferred, mortality. Feelings are a bodily thing, and respecting them is called, is, kindness.
A. S. Byatt
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There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.
Karen Thompson Walker
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I don't harp on the negative because if you do, then there's no progression. There's no forward movement. You got to always look on the bright side of things, and we are in control. Like, you have control over the choices you make.
Taraji P. Henson
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First of all my real full name is Lloyd Vernet Bridges III.
Beau Bridges
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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
Samuel Johnson
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I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and ocean in the world, were united to support me in the task to which I have now been dedicated with such solemnity.
Queen Elizabeth II
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I still take advice from my mum on what clothes look good on me. I used to listen to her a lot more, but I've started to choose my own things from time to time.
Rafael Nadal
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Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred.
Yousef Munayyer
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So many organizations have a mentoring arm, but they don't really do it. Their idea of mentoring a kid is giving them general advice. But what they need to do is read with children.
Walter Dean Myers
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What I've always said is that I'm opposed to institutional racism, and I would've, had I've been alive at the time, I think, had the courage to march with Martin Luther King to overturn institutional racism, and I see no place in our society for institutional racism.
Rand Paul
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I wanted to produce Nancy LaMott's albums, so I created my own record company.
David Friedman
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If you observe well, your own heart will answer.
R. A. Schwaller
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You deserve to live. You deserve to be alive.
Tahereh Mafi
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I tried softball and soccer. I just didn't take as much of a liking to it as I did sitting in a movie theater and watching people recreate a story, and doing it myself, as well.
Liana Liberato
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Enthusiasm is more active than faith, though enthusiasm cannot remove mountains nor call into action any of the omnipotent forces which faith can command. Activity is often at the expense of more solid, useful elements, and generally to the total neglect of prayer. To be too busy with God's work to commune with God, to be busy with doing church work without taking time to talk to God about His work, is the highway to backsliding, and many people have walked therein to the hurt of their immortal souls.
Edward McKendree Bounds
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People who grew up on my books are now able to get the point across to others that they're worth reading.
Joe R. Lansdale
