Joe R. Lansdale Quotes

My father was just a hell of a guy. He had a real strong sense of honor, and he tried to pass that on to me. I like to think that I embrace that.

Joe R. Lansdale

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 28, 1951

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The league is changing, and we don't have many back-to-the-basket players. We now have a game that requires skill and versatility. A lot of that is about being able to think. It makes all the difference in the world to have a player in there with a high basketball IQ who can make the right decision.

Jerry West

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Contrary to popular mythology, not all NFL cheerleaders are bimbos or strippers or bored pretty girls looking to get rich. The Ben-Gals offer proof. Neither a bimbo nor a stripper nor a bored pretty girl would survive the rigorous life of a Ben-Gal. The Ben-Gals all have jobs or school or both.

Jeanne Marie Laskas

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If the Pacific took Nauru, it'd wash away one of the strangest and most troubled places on Earth.

Johnny Colt

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I think it's brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.

Steve Jobs

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What's great about theater and drama is it thrives on dialogue, and dialogue thrives on people with different points of view fighting for what they want.

Mike Bartlett

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I don't follow trends, so I make my own.

Mohamed Hadid

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Film is like sculpture, writing, acting, technical arts, all sorts of arts. And that's why I wanted to do it for so long, because it would include so many places for attention.

Lucy Dacus

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L.A. just doesn't seem real to me. Chicago does. My real friends are there. It's home.

Chris O'Donnell

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Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be.

Bob Dylan

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When you get inside a literary novel you feel that the author, more often than not, just doesn't know enough about things. They haven't been around enough - novelists never go anywhere. Once I discovered true books about real things - books like 'How To Run a Company' - I stopped reading novels.

Peter York

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Our nation was founded on the principals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Leonard Boswell

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We have 45,000 square miles of geography in Ohio.

Kenneth Blackwell

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