Joe Haldeman Quotes
If you asked him, he would say the only connection between free will and religion in his life was the fact that he hadn’t set foot in a synagogue since he turned eighteen.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and then there was another part that was completely different.
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I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way - under the hoop.
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I was famous from the age of 13, and after a while you become immune to it - in a good way. You look at positives and what you can do with it.
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Our relationship with Mexico in this regard is unique for us, and in many respects unique in the world.
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I stuff animals I find; I do roadkill. They're strangely fun to have. They're like easy-to-control pets.
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else's ideas of who you can or can't become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a 'Keep Out' sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.
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I am the middle child with an older and younger brother.
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Because women have been marginalised, they're more likely to behave like immigrants and continue to push themselves forward in order to avoid falling through the cracks, but I don't think a happy ending comes from matriarchy.
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One thing I've tried to never do is make wish lists. I try to have a very steppingstone mentality about this whole thing, where as soon as you make one step you visualize the next step, not five steps ahead.
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You know rule one for the vice president is make sure you never upstage the president, right? It's rule one.
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There is something about building up a comradeship - that I still believe is the greatest of all feats - and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It's the intense effort, the giving of everything you've got. It's really a very pleasant sensation.
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I really hate drama. It's draining; it's mentally draining. It's a waste of time.
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I really feel that New York City is the greatest city in the world.
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Writing has never been that simple 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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My choice was to ruin my son's life by giving him money or giving 90-plus percent to charity. Not much of a choice.
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Be empowered as a female, as a woman. Don't apologize. Don't lose yourself in another person's life.
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I felt giving birth was the most creative act of all my creative acts - literally creation!
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I refuse to act the way someone expects me to.
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If you asked him, he would say the only connection between free will and religion in his life was the fact that he hadn’t set foot in a synagogue since he turned eighteen.
