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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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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People like to invent enemies. It spares us the need to address complex worldviews.
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I know that 'boots on the ground' is a scary phrase and that the Western world has gotten used to sterile attacks.
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I'm an actor. 99.9% of all actors in the world have been in denial towards the military.
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There's nothing particularly wrong with being more pessimistic than optimistic. Optimism is broad-based, non-detail-oriented thinking; pessimism is detail-oriented thinking.
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Give me a mystery – just a plain and simple one – a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery – just one!
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I'm just drawing it now. It's totally revolting. I'm sure you'll love it.
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There was a great push and pull of what Blink-128 should sound like all the time. Travis Barker comes from a different background than I do, and Tom DeLonge comes from a different background than either of us in terms of what we write and what we think a song should be. Tom pushes me out of a box that I put myself in.
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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.
