Joe Haldeman Quotes
CAROL: You don’t care for the music?JACQUE: Music! It’s just a gimmick to sell lutes and flutes.
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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The world is too violent right now.
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To be honest, once you've driven around for about five, 10 laps, you don't notice a difference.
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There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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For me, it's always been about preparation, and the more prepared I can be each week, the less pressure I feel and the more confident I am. As your confidence grows, it's only natural that the pressure you feel diminishes.
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A novel is not a rant.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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The thing that can get kind of annoying is, when you travel so much, how hectic it gets. I was being interviewed once - it was a phone interview - and they said, 'Where are you right now?' and I didn't know where I was.
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The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.
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When we talk about the minimum wage, we have to ask ourselves what it is that we owe both our workers and employers. I think clearly we owe them fairness.
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I suppose I am one of those lucky people who eats what they like and doesn't gain too much weight.
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The secret to everything for me is doing yoga every day. It does do nice things for your body, but it also kind of calms you down and chills you out. Other than that, I don't really drink alcohol and I always take my makeup off at night!
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There is a restaurant in L.A. called Crustacean, which is very famous for its garlic crab. Well, I can make garlic crab better than Crustacean. My sauce is so good you'll want to dip your bread in it, put it on your egg omelet, in your cereal, and in everything else.
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I do not believe in populism. I am not a supporter of radical decisions. Practice has shown that usually these are harmful.
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Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.
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We've come into the world of '1984,' but it turns out to be '1984'-Lite.
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
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I look out at the stadiums full of people and see them all knowing the words to songs I wrote. And curling their hair! I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny. And wonderful.
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Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.
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There is a huge market for products and services aimed at what I like to call the Pocketbook Environmentalist: a shopper who's savvy enough to know things don't necessarily have to cost more just because they're good for the environment.
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A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
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There are singers that I have enjoyed, from Nina Simone and Ray Charles onward. But the music that made music the number one thing for me as a youth was jazz.
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CAROL: You don’t care for the music?JACQUE: Music! It’s just a gimmick to sell lutes and flutes.
