Joseph Heller Quotes

It made him proud that 29 months in the service had not blunted his genius for ineptitude.

Joseph Heller

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• The bad news is, I have worked less than I have liked. The good news is, I can look back on my body of work and feel truly proud of the work I have done.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Good
  • Work
  • Done

• When I came in, the city was on the edge of bankruptcy. I'm proud of what I did. I built the foundation that mayors after me built upon - particularly Bloomberg. But the foundation was essential because if it hadn't occurred, we would have been another Detroit.

  

  Ed Koch
  • City
  • Proud
  • Foundation

• I liked the fact that my father had a lot of expectations from my brother. I probably wanted to be that person who he could be proud of.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Father
  • Proud
  • Brother

• Although, I am proud of all my Symphonies as they all have something special to say, my particular favourite is the Fifth. As the great Mahler expert Donald Mitchell said that if Mahler had written another Symphony, it would have been my Fifth!

  

  Malcolm Arnold
  • Proud
  • Favourite
  • Symphonies

• I am not very proud of being an human being; in fact, I distinctly dislike the species in many ways. I can readily conceive of beings vastly superior in every respect.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Respect
  • Proud
  • Human

• My connections to Broward are long, and they are deep, and I'm proud of them.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Long
  • Proud
  • Deep

• Houston's one of the most diverse urban areas in the entire country, and most people here are really proud of that.

  

  Laura Moser
  • People
  • Country
  • Proud

• To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • You
  • Understand
  • Genius

• One of the things that I'm really proud of is that I have really good timing. It's very easy for me to see what's coming up and it's no coincidence that I went headfirst into wine and then headfirst into new media - none at all.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Up
  • Good
  • Proud

• I am a spiritualist, a proud wearer of the spiritualist badge.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Proud
  • Spiritualist

• Martin Freeman is a genius, he really is. He gives you every color of the rainbow in every take and it's wonderful just to play off of him and opposite him.

  

  Lara Pulver
  • Color
  • Genius
  • Rainbow

• I never get tired of talking about 'Galaxy Quest.' I am so proud of that movie. Our only fear was that we were having so much fun making the movie we got concerned it might not be as good as we thought it was going to be.

  

  Enrico Colantoni
  • Good
  • Movie
  • Fun

• Well, I'm proud to say American Pie was the kind of crazy, gross-out film that guys thought was the greatest.

  

  Jason Biggs
  • American
  • Proud
  • Crazy

• I actually got a part in 'The Love Guru', that Mike Myers film. I heard it's awful. I got a Razzie award for it, which I'm quite proud of, but I still haven't seen it. I have no plans to branch out.

  

  Daniel Tosh
  • Proud

• In my eyes, I think it's important that if you're doing something you're proud of and that is genuine and authentic, you have a responsibility to bring that to as many people as possible, just for the sheer reason that there are musicians out there who are manufacturing emotions that aren't genuine.

  

  Nicholas James Murphy
  • People
  • Important
  • Eyes

• I was born and raised in Rogers Park in Chicago. My father sold furniture, and my mother was a Chicago public school teacher and proud member of the Chicago Teachers Union for decades.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • School
  • Mother
  • Father

• When I was 6, a family friend gave me E.L. Konigsburg's 'A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver' and launched me on a full-blown Eleanor obsession. I wanted to ride off on Crusade, to launch a thousand troubadour songs, to marry a king - and then jilt him and marry another.

  

  Lauren Willig
  • Family
  • Friend
  • Proud

• We are very proud of the diverse talents within the Franklin Mint's own walls.

  

  Lynda Resnick
  • Proud

• I'm thinking of a legacy that I can be proud of and wealth that my grandchildren can use to go to college. So world domination - in terms of providing for my family - is absolutely my goal.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Family

• When you're first starting out, you want to keep making good movies. When you're young and you're black, you do a bad movie and you're through.

  

  Chris Tucker
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Movie

• If only I wasn't an atheist, I could get away with anything.

  

  Keira Knightley
  • Atheist

• Today, when you look at social media, you see that the narrative can be overtaken by people just from Twitter and Instagram. I know when Ferguson was going down those first few nights, I was watching feeds on the ground on Twitter, not CNN.

  

  Ava DuVernay
  • People
  • Today

• The more observing ones may have seen, but discerning people are usually discreet and often kind, for we usually bleed a little before we begin to discern.

  

  Willa Cather
  • People
  • Kind
  • Littles

• It made him proud that 29 months in the service had not blunted his genius for ineptitude.

  

  Joseph Heller
  • Proud
  • Genius
  • Ineptitude