Joe R. Lansdale Quotes

I figure I can be artistic, but I work like a blue-collar person, too, and I'm serious about that.

Joe R. Lansdale

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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The beauty of the innovation that flows from the open web is that no one has to ask for permission, get a credential, or win a Disrupt or Launch award to go prove their idea is worthy. They just... put up a page on the web, iterate, iterate, iterate... and eventually, a Facebook emerges.

John Battelle

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I can't compare quarterbacks as apples and oranges in my mind because everybody's in a different system.

John Elway

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At the point that an idea approaches perfection, fashion and expectations surge ahead, leaving the innovator with considerable room to find further improvements.

Max McKeown

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Pirates worked to avoid violence and fighting.

Robert Kurson

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At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he knows he can't.

Rodney Dangerfield

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Really, at the end of the day, the only thing you can control is yourself; the only person you can truly educate is yourself. You have to redefine what beauty is to you so you can't be affected by what people are saying.

Rupi Kaur

BeautyDayYourselfPeopleControl

In this business, you can't get too attached to something.

Rotimi

BusinessYouSomethingGetAttached

The more you try to pin a word down, the more you realize that it has its own cape, sword and little hat.

Roy Blount, Jr.

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Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.

Mary Harris Jones

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When alien abductees recount to me their stories, I do not deny that they had a real experience.

Michael Shermer

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The normal reaction of a publisher when faced with an author with a bee in his bonnet is to grab the check and run.

Michael Korda

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Every time I perform or sing, I have an 'ah ha' moment. When I look at my blog and people reach out to me anonymously and speak of how I sing and how my music has touched them, it's an 'ah ha' moment. I'm constantly getting that, and I don't want that to ever stop, because it's reassuring me that I'm doing something right.

Luke James

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