Joe Haldeman Quotes
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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I get some heat for what English people call 'overproduction.' I don't think my older stuff was overproduced, but I do think that sound has dated.
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My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful.
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Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.
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It was a difficult second record. I had moments where I couldn't write; had moments where I was writing lots. It was just a massive learning process for me.
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Skin cancer became personal to my family when my father was diagnosed with basal cell carcinoma.
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There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever genre you're involved in, whether it's a fantasy game, the Wild West, secret agents or whatever else. You get to sort of vicariously experience those things.
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The discovery of personal whiteness among the world's peoples is a very modern thing - a nineteenth and twentieth century matter, indeed. The ancient world would have laughed at such a distinction.
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I believe in following opportunities.
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So an autobiography about death should include, in my case, an account of European Jewry and of Russian and Jewish events - pogroms and flights and murders and the revolution that drove my mother to come here.
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My party trick is that I ask everybody questions. I'm just nosey.
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Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.
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There's always a reason not to do anything... to flee the need to make decisions.
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I have a notebook that is filled to the brim with my dreams and ideas and goals and aspirations.
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I actually don't have a single regret, professionally or domestically. I planned it that way.
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I didn’t feel well, but they told me I was well enough. They didn’t say in so many words that I was as well as I would ever be, but that was the implication.
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Here's to the day when the complete works of Leon Trotsky are published and widely distributed in the Soviet Union. On that day the USSR will have achieved democracy!
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So many ways to be deemed unclean
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The war against terrorism will not be finished as long as he Saddam Hussein is in power.
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So many women have experienced horrific forms of male violence throughout their lives, and why isn't there a song about how you get depressed because of it?
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The Foole doth thinke he is wise, but the wiseman knowes himselfe to be a Foole.
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What happened to the tradition of walking to school? The simple answer is change. Change in traffic patterns and street planning that have made school routes less pedestrian-friendly.
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When my dad was in Vietnam, we lost a parent for a year. Thank God we didn't lose a parent for good.
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Nobody else in that platoon can tell a Hamiltonian from a hamburger.
