Joe Haldeman Quotes
I like the physical action of writing down by hand, and I don't just use it for writing my fiction.
Quotes to Explore
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The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
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As I've traveled around the country, it has surprised me how many times I've heard people in small businesses use that word 'saved.' I believe many small businesses would not have had access to credit and would not have survived without the $50 billion that we were able to put into the market.
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In the '80 Olympics... people expected me to win. I was good enough to win, and I made a mistake and ended up second, which is pretty good, too.
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Robots are good at things that are structured.
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The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.
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Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration.
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If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines through and makes people attractive.
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If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.
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I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.
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While girls average a healthy five hours a week on video games, boys average 13. The problem? The brain chemistry of video games stimulates feel-good dopamine that builds motivation to win in a fantasy while starving the parts of the brain focused on real-world motivation.
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But what I really like are old Hollywood movies. Very often I watch AMC.
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Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval.
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Change is the one thing we can be sure of.
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Love your neighbor as yourself; but don't take down the fence.
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I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.
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People should recognize who you are and how you can act rather then how famous you are.
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Having competed themselves, my father and my uncle are very passionate about motorsport, so I inherited it from them.
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I met the Colonel when Elvis was recording some song I'd written for one of his movies. Elvis was just having fun with the gang and all the Memphis boys and Colonel Parker was sitting over here in like a theater seat.
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People like to invent enemies. It spares us the need to address complex worldviews.
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When I was 15, my parents left town for a month. They hid the keys to the car, but I found them. That month, I drove my stepdad's Thunderbird Super Coupe into Manhattan every day, and I would crank Cypress Hill as I flew around the city, racing the taxis.
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I'm not really big on slapstick humor. I like gentle humor.
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For hundreds of thousands of years, life was brutal. It still is for a good chunk of the planet. The technology and wealth we enjoy in North America is a very new development in history, and I think we miss the challenges of day-to-day survival in our comparatively easy modern lives. Some people will even create problems if they have none.
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I will defend anyone as long as the client gives me total control of the case and pays up front.
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I like the physical action of writing down by hand, and I don't just use it for writing my fiction.
