Joe Haldeman Quotes
One hopes that they'll never be able to use mind control weapons, because we're all done for if that happens. I don't want military people, or political people, to have that type of power over those of us who just get by from day to day.
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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The character I play is a wonderful compilation of things I hate about myself and things I love about myself and things that I've invented to make her even more interesting than me.
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Serena and I have done some great career planning, and we're playing really at the peak of our tennis right now. I think tennis has been a sport where people play this insane schedule from 14 years old, so of course at 26, it's over. We've really paced ourselves.
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The vampires in the 'VAMPS' series judge each other as harshly as they judge humans, and basically, vampires don't get along very well. So you've got a culture that's from cradle to grave like the worst high school you've ever been in.
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Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
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I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.
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When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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If anything, I was a prodigious eater of everything that was put in front of me. That was probably the only thing my parents wouldn't complain about.
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It took me just three months to pick up Hindi. I guess I'm a fast learner when it comes to languages.
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I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
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How can it be said we should use only constitutional means in our struggle, when all resistance is illegal and we have no way to change the brutal realities of the racism regime?
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There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
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I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.
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When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.
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Animal vision - including human vision - is so biased toward movement that we don't technically see stationary objects at all.
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Some creative writing programs seem evil, but my experience at Irvine was totally the opposite, where I feel like they were really good at focusing in on each writers voice and setting. When I felt like I was obligated to write a story that was more typical, no one really liked it.
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The sound of the orchestra is one of the most magnificent musical sounds that has ever existed.
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To gain a better understanding, I'm just trying to make it real/reel. Like a fisherman, Pon De River fam. I Pon My Bank, deposit my thoughts. Till my mind draws a blank and I withdraw from checking. I'll leave that with ya'll for a second...
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One hopes that they'll never be able to use mind control weapons, because we're all done for if that happens. I don't want military people, or political people, to have that type of power over those of us who just get by from day to day.
