Joe Haldeman Quotes
I had to stifle an impulse to laugh. Surely 'cowardice' had nothing to do with his decision. Surely he had nothing so primitive and unmilitary as a will to live.
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My first workshop was in Rome, and that was the start of House of Waris. In a little magical atelier, a goldsmith, his apprentice, his stone setter - and that was where it began.
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I condemn everyone and anyone who commits acts of terrorism. And Hamas has committed acts of terrorism.
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When you cease to dream you cease to live.
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The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
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Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
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I'm here because I stand on many, many shoulders, and that's true of every black person I know who has achieved.
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That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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Being black, Latino, or Asian is not a genre. Romantic comedies, thrillers, action - those are genres. I think there's a lot of people who want to have the conversation. I don't think people are afraid of it, I just think it's the time to have that conversation. Race is not a genre.
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The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint.
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I'm very painful to deal with when I create a shoe.
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I think subsuming political and economic conflicts into some grand 'clash of civilisations' theory or 'the West versus the rest' binary is a particularly insidious form of ideological deception.
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It is our duty, to ourselves and to our children, to see the new world as it is now.
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There are many women who came before me who didn't really have the same opportunities that I have had. That's why I always wanted to be a great ambassador - not only today's generation - but for the women who really didn't have a voice, but who paved the way for me.
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What ObamaCare did was take some of the things we did for the poor and expanded the government to basically the whole marketplace.
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I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.
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I am always attracted to the moments when a person who is associated with a certain message, image or sensibility evolves. I am very interested in how audiences respond to that maturation and absorb the evolution.
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A million years went by quick.
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One should never write down or up to people, but out of yourself.
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I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn't want to do movies that much. I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
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Militants have made about five infiltration attempts since the October 8 earthquake, including two on a single day.
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I get uncomfortable and kind of scared sometimes of certain public situations because, since I've been on TV or I've appeared in some films, people think this boundary between us has been removed, and I owe them something.
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I had to stifle an impulse to laugh. Surely 'cowardice' had nothing to do with his decision. Surely he had nothing so primitive and unmilitary as a will to live.
