Joe R. Lansdale Quotes
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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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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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I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
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It is not natural or inevitable that half the world goes hungry; that the freedom of markets trumps protection of the planet; or that citizens' rights come second to those of corporations.
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I wanted to do 'Fargo' rather than do a TV production. I've been offered TV things over the years, but usually, that's about that I don't want to be away from home for that long because it's a long time to be away your home country and my family.
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I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was.
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The truth is that for a Democrat to triumph in a presidential election, it needs to come on the heels of 'the dark times' of an unpopular Republican administration. Carter followed the Nixon era, Clinton succeeded after 12 years of Reagan/Bush, and Obama was a direct result of eight years of Bush/Cheney.
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This could be a whole life," she thought. "You work eight hours a day covering wires to earn money to buy food and to pay for a place to sleep so that you can keep living to come back to cover more wires. Some people are born and kept living just to come to this.
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Children are the keys of paradise.
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I write what I hear.
