Joe Haldeman Quotes
'Some are born crazy,' Amelia said. 'Some achieve craziness. We had craziness thrust upon us.'
Quotes to Explore
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For psychological purposes the most important differences in conation are those in virtue of which the object is revealed as sensed or perceived or imaged or remembered or thought.
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For me, seeing the target and not seeing the target doesn't make any difference.
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I've got a great staff and great support system, and I'm going to stick my neck out and do what I always do.
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Not a lot of people would think that I spent most of my early years totally rebelling against anything I could, getting suspended from school, going on demonstrations.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
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Members of great teams confront each other when they see something that isn't serving the team.
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A lot of my work concerns a crisis of agency - what can we do?
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My inherent belief is that motherhood is pious, and I am humbled by it.
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Before I started doing the film and when I found out I was going to be doing it, I just decided to pump up on the whole cardio stuff. Just in terms of stamina.
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There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
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Fashion has a long interest in collaborative situations.
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Making the 'An Idiot Abroad' series, I was really dreading going to India; I thought I'd hate it. It was a nightmare, and I was really ill - just like everyone says.
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There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. This is a man who signed his pact with the devil 20 years ago, and he's learned to live with it. He's tried to protect his family from it.
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The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.
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In spite of the polls, the fact is that American Muslims are very happy and they thrive in this country.
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History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.
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I'd see an old person on the street and start crying. I couldn't understand how people could cope, knowing they only had so long left. It would be like dominoes and then the last one fell and I'm a little heap on the floor. Doctors put me on anti-depressants for a couple of years.
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I like films that are gritty and hard-hitting and suspenseful. Thrillers, too.
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Writers are always selling somebody out.
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I have studios in the different places where I live - in Ibiza, Paris and London - but they're not crazy studios, they're just rooms with good monitors, and all I do is plug my laptop in. It's a different way to make music, but for me, I love it, because it's more connected to the world.
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To find a new word that is accurate and different, you have to be alert for it.
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'Some are born crazy,' Amelia said. 'Some achieve craziness. We had craziness thrust upon us.'
