Joe Haldeman Quotes
I don't think I would have written a combat novel if I had just had peacetime military training. I think, in fact, I probably would have remained a poet and just written a short story every now and then.
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Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact.
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I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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There's no more to Holden Caulfield. Read the book again. It's all there. Holden Caulfield is only a frozen moment in time.
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Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
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The concept of monogamy is an inheritance of a medieval time, when family would carry the tradition of the name and certain privileges. It's a way of organizing society, perhaps.
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We're just going to be ourselves, and we're just going to cross our fingers and hope that people like it. Because that's all you can do.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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My home is attached to a study - in fact, my home is my study, and I have a little room to sleep in. I need to write looking onto the street or a landscape. Looking at reality from some distance gives me romantic visions.
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To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.
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I'm having a great time. It's like I'm on some ridiculous big roller coaster not knowing what's happening next, but just having a great time on the ride.
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If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion.
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I always say my music is like dark blue or black, like a punch to your gut that feels really good.
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Eating-wise, I'm fairly disciplined. I have to be, because if you're not eating correctly, you're not giving your body the fuel it needs. So, I stay away from carbs after the morning, and I eat a lot of protein - fish, chicken, and no red meat.
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I grew up in Decatur, Georgia. We had three boys in the household; actually, it felt like four of us. My pops sort of raised my uncle, too. So, it was four boys and, later, a younger sister.
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I find Denver's hipster scene to be fully unique.
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I view myself as a dealmaker.
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It's Teach For America's responsibility to ensure that all alumni know their voices are heard and valued, and to surface the range of opinion they represent.
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Most Icelandic people are really proud to be from there, and we don't have embarrassments like World War II where we were cruel to other people. We don't even have an army. So it's sort of like an all-around good, innocent place.
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...every human being has an amount of genius in them.
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Sometimes I wish that this quest had not come to me. Justice is an impossible beast to track. The trail is lonely, and she offers no reward when she's caught but the promise of another hunt.
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I can be much more sarcastic and, I think, sometimes withering in my assessments of things than I allow to show in my public life.
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I don't think I would have written a combat novel if I had just had peacetime military training. I think, in fact, I probably would have remained a poet and just written a short story every now and then.
