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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In my early days in Hollywood I tried to be economical. I designed my own clothes, much to my mother's distress.
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My dad was my hero. And I got my personality from my mother.
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...if I win, I am going to instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your Hilary Clinton's situation, because there has never been so many lies, so much deception. There has never been anything like it, and we’re going to have a special prosecutor.
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Here, you go to the supermarket and you have wipes to clean your hands before shopping. No, we don't have that in France, but we recycle.
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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.
