Joe Haldeman Quotes
I have always valued quiet, and the eternity of it that I face is no more dreadful than the eternity of quiet that preceded my birth.
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Acting is in your soul.
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I remember the moment I first became aware of aging. I was 30. I looked down at my knees, and the skin above them had become a little loose. And I thought, 'And so it begins!'
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I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
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I don't go cheap on anything, but I'm not a shopper. If I want something, I look at it, decide what it is, but it will usually be the best product. I've got a pair of loafers that I still wear that I got in 1957.
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Everything in life has a price on it - there ain't a damn thing free in America, and football has got a price on it.
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Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.
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I had a lot of fun in Cambodia, much more so in Cambodia than Vietnam.
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With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think today of making my first flight on a strange machine in a twenty-seven mile wind, even if I knew that the machine had already been flown and was safe.
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I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.
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I like making sci-fi movies because I like watching sci-fi movies. I like watching horror. I like being in a horror movie. I'm a fan. My perspective's a little different just because I get to participate as well as spectate.
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I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.
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I like to be lazy. I do like to be busy and really active, but when that's done, you can be sure I will be a lazy boy. I like to take time and relax and enjoy life.
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Muslim moderates, wherever they are, must be given every tool necessary to win a war of ideas with their co-religionists. Otherwise, we will have to win some very terrible wars in the future.
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People take sides on political things, such as the Vietnam War. War is immoral and war is wrong, but I don't think the clergy ought to bring it before the Church.
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Knowing that anything can happen at any time, I made sure the people that I love know that.
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I'd experimented with so many different types of music. I had these folky songs I'd written and recorded, but something wasn't quite right.
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I'm taking a vow not to advise.
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I hope that they are finding satisfaction. I'm in no way making a judgment. I know it doesn't make me happy.
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Tradition means taking account of a wonderful history but remembering that everybody today looks to the future.
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I'm a bit hyperactive as an actor, I like to keep moving.
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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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Deep inside, I was hoping I'd win: The competition was tough, but I learned from other's mistakes.
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Once you're away from music, I realize that's as intrinsic to who I am as anything else. That's the part that takes me out of my brain.
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I have always valued quiet, and the eternity of it that I face is no more dreadful than the eternity of quiet that preceded my birth.
