Joe Haldeman Quotes
When I first started working at MIT, back in the '80s, our writing department had a joint cocktail party with the Harvard writing department. It was kind of oil-and-water.
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I don't carry a wallet. I keep my cards in my pocket and cash in my boots.
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Tone can be as important as text.
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We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.
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On the small scale, 'Ico,' I think, actually delivered a small new thing: holding a character's hand and really feeling like your job is to rescue this person, and establishing a personal connection.
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Discouragement, fear, doubt, lack of self-confidence, are the germs which have killed the prosperity and happiness of tens of thousands of people.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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How can we educators claim credit for understanding, let alone teaching, the 'global mind' without a single course on the impact of religion on every day life?
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I knew Hunter Thompson since the '70s, and I loved him, but he would wear me out as I got older.
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There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.
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I have two sisters, and we are the best of friends.
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The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.
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I'm incredibly neurotic and a control freak. I like the thought that if there's going to be anyone to blame it's going to be me.
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My father was a screenwriter, but he was also a novelist.
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Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis. The most exciting letters I received were from people in places like that.
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Film is such a very good tool for communicating emotions, and all designers and creative people look to inspire an emotional response.
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Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
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The first songs I learned was 'Crazy' by Patsy Cline and 'At Last' by Etta James. I had been growing up with the Beatles, Pink Floyd, great bands.
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Only science and the spirit of seeking truth from facts can save China. I firmly believe in this.
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The independent role of morphology in mate choice is revealed by the rare instances where the usual association between song and morphology is disrupted.
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I drug your ghost across the country, and we plotted out my death.Every city and memory we whispered 'Here is where you rest.'Well I was determined in Chicago but I dug my teeth into my kneesAnd I settled for a telephone, sang into your machine:'You are my sunshine, my only sunshine.'
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I like to entertain at home, to live beautifully but comfortably.
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Computers don't create computer animation any more than a pencil creates pencil animation. What creates computer animation is the artist.
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I'm responsible for a hundred thousand people across Australia as well and I want to keep them gainfully employed. I want to give them opportunity to grow, I want to give them opportunity to develop.
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When I first started working at MIT, back in the '80s, our writing department had a joint cocktail party with the Harvard writing department. It was kind of oil-and-water.
