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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Ireland sober is Ireland stiff.
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To make men Socialists is nothing, but to make Socialism human is a great thing.
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As far as 'Twilight' goes, I'm in love with my character. I'm in love with the whole series. I love doing the fan conventions around the world, I love to travel. So wherever it fits in, I'd love to continue doing that for the rest of my life. Just meeting the fans who made everything possible from around the world.
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Someone on Twitter sent me a page from a textbook. It had a picture of a football player next to a picture of me. The juxtaposition was meant to illustrate two meanings of "offensive." Seriously. It broke my heart. It's that accepted what I do is offensive?
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'Some are born crazy,' Amelia said. 'Some achieve craziness. We had craziness thrust upon us.'
