Joe R. Lansdale Quotes
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I don't think Joe Louis could take the punches today fighting in this era.
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In America, music is more tightly categorized.
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Oh, I am an angel, though sometimes I wish I was more of a devil.
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It was always my dream to be part of MTV and make history.
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Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.
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We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.
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I always played sports when I was young. I played football and baseball for eight years. I loved football.
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I've always followed this page on Instagram called the Sausage Dog Hotel.
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Islam tells us every girl and boy should be educated. I don't know why the Taliban have forgotten it.
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The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.
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Where liberty dies, evil grows.
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There are many more serial killers living outside the prison walls than inside.
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I'd read Stone Cold's biography about how he lived on, like, raw potatoes, and I thought, this is all part of it. This is what wrestlers do, and this is what I'm going to do.
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Directing is: you're overwhelmed the whole time. Your mind never stops. If you care about it. You wake up in the morning and you begin thinking about it and then you go to sleep at night and you're still thinking about it.
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And we did it because it's time for City Hall to stop looking out for City Hall and start looking out for the people like you and me who are footing the bill.
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Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.
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In real football, I wouldn't want Terrell Owens anywhere near my team. But you're nuts if you don't take him in fantasy.
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None of the parties want this conflict to go on.
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Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.
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I am going to have to stick to the script. If I muck around with the words it will defeat the object.
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And I'm not trying to write heavy songs.
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All that I know is nothing - I'm not even sure of that.
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The thing is not to leave unfinished business; make every day count.
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I write what I hear.
