Joseph Heller Quotes
Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure.
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I used to sing in jazz clubs with a friend until she went another way.
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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If you are at the top in entertainment, you earn money that you can never justify to ordinary people doing proper jobs. You can't.
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The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.
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Being the world's greatest athlete just does not get it done on the golf course.
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You know what's funny? There's times when you catch a ball and really didn't even see that ball. You're like, 'That couldn't have been all me.'
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Probably millions of Americans got up this morning with a cup of coffee, a cigarette and a donut. No wonder they are sick and fouled up.
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I said we needed to organize women around the world to push peace.
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I'm more comfortable performing in front of 50,000 people than five people - it's easier. When there's that many people, I feel like I'm alone. When I perform in front of only a few people, it's scary.
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When I got to Iraq, my world focused in on one mission. It was incredibly rewarding.
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I've never, in my whole 30 years in office, run a negative ad.
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I go to temple a lot less than I would like because when I do, people still look at me as if they think it's a publicity stunt.
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People call me Wayne Wonder and it also goes back to football because I could do mad skills with the ball and people would marvel and wonder how I could do it.
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From my years of work with so many game show production companies and their producers I'm probably no longer eligible to be a contestant on any American game show.
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I just love crafting and shaping sounds. Actually, many of the sounds that I work with start off as organic instruments - guitar, piano, clarinet, etc. But I do love the rigidity of electronic drums.
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A peace talk is always difficult, always complicated.
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I don't know how to explain how, probably to my detriment, unselfpromoting I am. I used to have a cabaret act and I didn't even like to tell me people about that. I really hate selling myself.
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Why have one chandelier when you can have two?
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I think it's funny that nobody wants to be liked by Washington. All the politicians go, 'I don't like Washington. They don't like me.' I always find it funny that people are trying to distance themselves from Washington as much as they can, even though they're all in Washington.
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I truly believe that writing is a continuum - so the different genres and forms are simply stops along the same continuum. Different ideas that need to be expressed sometimes require different forms for the ideas to float better. I don't write essays as often as I should.
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You don't reach points in life at which everything is sorted out for us. I believe in endings that should suggest our stories always continue.
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From where they stood, they could see the castle.
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You don't go into the game to compete. You go into each game to win.
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Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure.
