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.

Joe Haldeman

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At the risk of being old-fartish, I like old-school wines that taste the way the winemaker intended, as opposed to organic and untreated ones with more bottle variation. If I want to take a risk, I'll go bungee-jumping.

John Lanchester

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Understand what you want, and want it as badly as you can. Make the stakes for yourself as life-or-death as you can.

Sterling K. Brown

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I learned more about elections on election night 2000 than I ever did during my 16 years of schooling.

Rob Corddry

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I am a fighter. I'm not just there to go along and get along.

Michele Bachmann

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New York is such a competitive place; it tears people apart. People come here and, if they can't make it in the first month, they get torn apart and they have to go back to where they came from. I don't think that's terribly healthy.

Moby

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Bill Veeck was a charismatic and somewhat eccentric owner-fan during the post-WWII years.

Don Yaeger

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I think people tend to feel odd when I do my act. Unless you are an ironic person, it's not a good place for you to be.

Colin Quinn

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My dream was to win an Academy Award. But my other dream was to win the Super Bowl, and there's a chance that might not happen, either.

Brian Dunkleman

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I've got rock 'n' roll in my blood.

William Shatner

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The major media companies are significantly reducing their financial commitment to the motion picture sector.

Peter Bart

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I listen to a lot of podcasts, which are split down the middle between comedy and board game podcasts, and a couple of eclectic ones like 'The Dinner Party' from NPR, where they take an event that happened that week in history and give you a cocktail recipe inspired by it.

Rich Sommer

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I'm very strong creatively, in my music.

Leona Lewis

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