Joseph Heller Quotes
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I don't think anyone feels older. You have this infinity inside you that feels like it could go on forever.
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Companies like I.B.M. have offered women scholarships to study engineering for years, and women engineers routinely get higher starting salaries than men.
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I'm one of those crazy people, if I'm watching the trailer for a movie and I'm really excited by it, I'll turn it off because I don't want to know anything. I want to be surprised because I love that more than knowing anything.
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There are lines that I know are going to get a belly laugh, but after a few shows I get sick of hearing myself say them so I drop them.
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I want to reach the heights of stardom beyond my imagination.
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I have truly eclectic taste in music, and I seem to cycle through phases in terms of to what's inspiring me. I'll go from Beethoven to Sigur Ros; world music, Brit-pop, classic rock, blues/jazz, even the odd bit of heavy metal.
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Getting toxic lead out of gasoline, the oil industry shouted, would cost a dollar a gallon. It turned out to cost just a penny a gallon to protect hundreds of thousands of kids from lead-induced brain damage.
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To us, the value of a work lies in its newness: the invention of new forms, or a novel combination of old forms, the discovery of unknown worlds or the exploration of unfamiliar areas in worlds already discovered - revelations, surprises.
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'... You see, you are an optimist and live on hope. I am a pessimist and live on experience.'
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And me I'm in the bathroomcrying out my eyelids because it's hard to be a manwhen you're scared, just like a little kid.
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I'm going to go on just living and laughing and loving.
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I kind of like the idea of creating my own literature within my albums. I definitely thought about that when I started writing songs.
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I always considered programming as being like modern-day wizardry. You could think of things in your mind and then make them happen.
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As time goes by, people get to know you better. They pose problems for you, and you have to come up with solutions.
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Scandal rarely toured after those first few hits. I want to go out and sing and connect with fans who may have never seen us live.
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I did a lot of small black-box theater in New York when I was starting out. I'd get a group of actors together to do workshops and readings. And I ended up directing three or four productions.
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I'd seen a play of 'Richard III' in Coventry when I was 15, which sowed the seeds that you could act for a living.
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I used to have trust with reporters. Give them scoops. Those were the old days. It's very strange, when you give a story and it doesn't come out the right way.
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I do want love. Genuine love.
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The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.
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It's always important to invest in young talents and the talents of tomorrow.
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Time hygiene is about finding more time for ourselves: to think, to do what we like.
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I've always felt, as a writer, that radicals are fascinating because they're relations, they have a place in the American family. They're the relatives everyone wishes would go away. They're the embarrassments to decorum and good taste.
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He was never without misery, and never without hope.
