Joe R. Lansdale Quotes
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If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.
Eckhart Tolle
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I think my best friend is dry shampoo and dry texturizer spray.
Rachel Platten
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Having grown up on a family farm, I am all too familiar with the effects a drought can have on a crop.
Sam Graves
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I'm from the gulf coast of Louisiana.
Ian Somerhalder
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As they marched, the crowds lining the route broke into applause, a sweet and deeply felt spontaneous pattering that was a sort of communal embrace. Welcome home.
Lance Morrow
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Whether I build a character from the ground up or develop one, whether within my own copyright or in licensed work, I can step into that character's mind. It takes a kind of voluntary dissociation akin to method acting, military planning, marketing, or detective work: to think like the other guy and work out what he's going to do next.
Karen Traviss
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There are 3.5 million Americans in Puerto Rico. So, just like we're quick to go everywhere else and help, we expect that same of America for Puerto Rico. These are U.S. citizens!
Fat Joe
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There's no glory and no respect in making fun of the weak, the powerless.
Bassem Youssef
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Our actions are the ground we walk on.
Mandy Patinkin
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The act is truth. Nothing that was ever recorded is truth. Nothing that was ever said is truth. Only the act.
Jack Bowman
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Go ahead and believe in God, if you like, but don't imagine that you have been given any grounds for such a belief by science.
Daniel Dennett
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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
Abigail Adams
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No book had ever really hinted of it, though the deathless Chinamen said that there were double meanings in the Necronomicon of the mad Arab Abdul Alhazred which the initiated might read as they chose, especially the much-discussed couplet:
H. P. Lovecraft
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To ask the hard question is simple, The simple act of the confused will.
W. H. Auden
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'That’s me,' he said, motioning to the robot. 'That’s all of us. We prattle about free will, but we’re nothing but response...mechanical reaction in prescribed grooves.'
Alfred Bester
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'No, but one can feel desperate at any age, don't you think? The young are eternally desperate,' he said frankly. 'And books, they offer one hope – that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe, one is saved.
Anne Rice
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I go - as others already crucified have gone. And think not we are weary of crucifixion. For we must be crucified by larger and yet larger men, between greater earths and greater heavens.
Kahlil Gibran
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We doubt not the destiny of our country - that she is to accomplish great things for human nature, and be the mother of a nobler race than the world has yet known. But she has been so false to the scheme made out at her nativity, that it is now hard to say which way that destiny points.
Margaret Fuller
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There never has been security. No man has ever known what he would meet around the next corner; if life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Of course, I want to sell records, and of course I want to get played on radio, but it has to be about making the record that I'm proud of.
Trisha Yearwood
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Full on this casement shone the wintry moon,And threw warm gules on Madeline’s fair breast,As down she knelt for heaven’s grace and boon;Rose-bloom fell on her hands, together prest.
John Keats
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We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.
Abraham Lincoln
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I worked in rose fields, and I worked in potato fields. I did some bouncing.
Joe R. Lansdale