Joe R. Lansdale Quotes

I never felt poor. Our family euphemism was that we were broke, which I think psychologically gave you a different feeling. There were people far worse than we were.

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• I would love it if people could look at chubby folks with all of our curves, bumps and ridges and just say 'She's beautiful' just like that. You don't have to get on a treadmill as long as your blood pressure is under control and you eat healthy, God bless.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
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• I try to avoid saying 'fantastic' too often and 'obviously' is a dangerous word for all broadcasters.

  

  Gary Lineker
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• Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.

  

  Madame de Stael
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• I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.

  

  Abigail Breslin
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• I learned that despite having years and years of experience in math and computer science and so on, I didn't really know how to code until I formed a company.

  

  Balaji Srinivasan
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• Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character?

  

  Samantha Harvey
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• When confronting most crises, whether historic or contemporary, aid agencies generally muddle along on a case-by-case basis. They weigh insufficient information, extrapolate somewhat blindly about long-term pros and cons, and reluctantly arrive at decisions meant to do the most good and the least harm.

  

  Samantha Power
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  • Long
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• I actually started playing in little cafes around New York, and I have a lot of good friends of mine who are musicians who are struggling in New York.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Good
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• Everything must be carried out in extreme sobriety.

  

  Gabriele Nanni
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  • Out
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• Some of the greatest moments in human history were fueled by emotional intelligence.

  

  Adam Grant
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• I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and narrative of a film.

  

  Ram Charan
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• All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.

  

  Walter Payton
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• I had a band with a girl in New York, and we would go around and do gigs. And then I happened to start getting work as an actress.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
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• I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.

  

  Taylor Lautner
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• For a while, I became an atheist; now that I'm grown up, though, I'm not hard-edged enough to be an atheist. Even though I live with a flaming atheist, I love going to temple. I love all the rituals.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
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• This result was confirmed by different researchers using various experimental arrangements.

  

  Walther Bothe
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• You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.

  

  Randy Pausch
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• When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.

  

  Patrick Henry
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• The Koch brothers, through the expenditure of billions of dollars and the creation and support of dozens of extreme right organizations, have taken fringe extremist ideas and made them mainstream within the Republican Party.

  

  Bernie Sanders
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• Living in a small Italian hilltown, and having lived in a small town in south Georgia, I understand that you can recognize a family gene pool by the lift of an eyebrow, or the length of a neck, or a way of walking.

  

  Frances Mayes
  • Family
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• Amor et melle et felle est faecundissimus.

  

  Plautus

• Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren't hungry, they wouldn't work. Now we are committed to feeding people whether they work or not. Nor is money as great a reinforcer as it once was. People no longer work for punitive reasons, yet our culture offers no new satisfactions.

  

  B. F. Skinner
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• Liberty is a need felt by a small class of people whom nature has endowed with nobler minds than the mass of men;.... Consequently, it may be repressed with impunity. Equality, on the other hand, pleases the masses.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • People
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• I never felt poor. Our family euphemism was that we were broke, which I think psychologically gave you a different feeling. There were people far worse than we were.

  

  Joe R. Lansdale
  • People
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