Joe Haldeman Quotes

I carry a notebook and write down things to do, and I write out thoughts and stuff like that.

Joe Haldeman

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When I was able to go to school in my early years, my third grade teacher, Ms. Harris, convinced me that one day I would be a writer. I heard her, but I knew that I had to leave Georgia, and unlike my friend Ray Charles, I did not go around with 'Georgia on My Mind.'

John Henrik Clarke

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And I managed to arrange to get some research support and to stay in Hong Kong for another year and a half, interviewing people coming out of China, both Westerners and Chinese. And that was my first real research study on thought reform or so-called brainwashing.

Robert Jay Lifton

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Our job is not to predict the future. Rather, it's to suggest all the possible futures - so that society can make informed decisions about where we want to go.

Robert J. Sawyer

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I've had the same friends for ten, fifteen years.

Jeanne Tripplehorn

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If you look at Kirsten Dunst's performance in 'Melancholia,' which I think is absolutely wonderful - it's not even in the text, because she doesn't say much; it's all in her eyes. She doesn't have to explain what she's feeling. You just feel it.

Stellan Skarsgard

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I know how hard it is to make it in the music business.

Roger Taylor

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I really don't know the Chicago School. You see, I never walk. I always take taxis back and forth to work. I rarely see the city.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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I kept an open mind on the question of whether a hominid had been present in Europe in the early Pleistocene.

Louis Leakey

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You have to be committed to expand rights and opportunities for all women.

Joni Ernst

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I was sort of a jack-of-all-trades in show business for a long time. I was a singer and a dancer, and then I got a job as an actor.

Christopher Walken

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I think that a lot of women experience that balance between feeling insecure about and appreciative for their bodies. I definitely have.

Christen Press

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Control and surrender have to be kept in balance. That's what surfers do - take control of the situation, then be carried, then take control. In the last few thousand years, we've become incredibly adept technically. We've treasured the controlling part of ourselves and neglected the surrendering part.

Brian Eno

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