Joseph Heller Quotes
Major Major had lied, and it was good. He was not really surprised that it was good, for he had observed that people who did lie were, on the whole, more resourceful and ambitious and successful than people who did not lie.
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Hard work is not why I have been successful as a model.
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Barack Obama would not be President if he were dark skin. You know what I mean? That's just the truth. I might not be as successful as I am now if I was dark skin.
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It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
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Anyone who says there isn't pressure to look good as an actor in L.A. is lying.
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To be honest, I've made a game out of trying to live through my James Dean, Janis Joplin, Freddie Prinze, Jim Morrison period, those demons that we all have that we're either successful or not at making work for us rather than destroy us.
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A lot of shows fly under the radar for the first couple seasons and then become successful. It doesn't necessarily have any bearing on the success of the show or how much the network is behind it.
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It is clear from the reaction to our campaign so far that our message is resonating. I look forward to continuing to take this message to all Americans, and showing them that I can be as successful running the country as I was running the state of New Mexico.
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I've had young women come to me and say that before they watched 'Voyager' it didn't really occur to them that they could be successful in a higher position in the field of science; girls going to MIT, girls pursuing astrophysics with a view to a career in NASA.
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Almost inevitably there are tensions in the picture, tensions between the outside world and the inside world. For me, a successful picture resolves these tensions without eliminating them.
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A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
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Sometimes I'm successful, and sometimes I'm not, but I don't mind going down trying.
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Ryan Giggs will go down as the most successful British footballer of all time and I cannot see anyone ever overtaking him. He's on the brink of his 13th league title, after all.
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'Pleasantville' seems tonally ambitious, but it can handle a wide breadth of tone because it's so fanciful.
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Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.
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'3 Idiots' was remade in various languages down south, but it wasn't successful anywhere because the magic was created by Aamir Khan and Rajkumar Hirani.
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Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.
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The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
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God knows, I haven't always been successful.
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Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.
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God laughs, it seems, because God knows how it all turns out in the end.
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In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.
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My own doctrine of organization is that any body of people coming together for a purpose (whatever it may be) should consist of persons wholly wedded to said purpose and should consist of nobody else. If the purpose be Cannibalism (preference for Ham a la Capitalism) then nobody but a Cannibal should be admitted. There should be plenty of discussion and disagreement as to how and the means but none whatever as to ends.
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When I got to the library I came to a standstill, - ah, the dear room, what happy times I have spent in it rummaging amongst the books, making plans for my garden, building castles in the air, writing, dreaming, doing nothing.
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Major Major had lied, and it was good. He was not really surprised that it was good, for he had observed that people who did lie were, on the whole, more resourceful and ambitious and successful than people who did not lie.
