Joseph Heller Quotes

You have no respect for excessive authority or obsolete traditions. You're dangerous and depraved, and you ought to be taken outside and shot!

Joseph Heller

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• It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.

  

  Madeleine Albright
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• There were sometimes from forty to sixty English machines, but unfortunately the Germans were often in the minority. With them quality was more important than quantity.

  

  Manfred von Richthofen
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• There are still great artists in the country format.

  

  Zac Brown Band
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• If we misuse the gift of sexuality, we're going to suffer the consequences, and I firmly believe we are suffering the consequences.

  

  Salvatore J. Cordileone
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• A lot of people pulled me up after 'Trainspotting' for its absence of politics, but the argument I make is that the absence of politics is political as well.

  

  Irvine Welsh
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• I look back at photographs and I remember at the time I thought I was not very attractive.

  

  Barbara Cook
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• We want to make sure that women have a way to use all their gifts in society, to get educated, to be all they can be in the workforce, to really develop as people in all the ways that they can. We want this for men too! And we want this for children. Well this can't happen if this can be sandbagged by an ill-timed and unwanted pregnancy.

  

  Katha Pollitt
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• Being a hooker does not mean being evil. The same with a pick-pocket, or even a thief. You do what you do out of necessity.

  

  Samuel Fuller
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• I gotta do what I think is right, and if enough people like it, I'm a winner. And if they don't, I'll open a bookstore.

  

  Warren Spector
  • People
  • Think
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• They are just really stupid people in Hollywood. You write them a script, and they say they love it, they absolutely love it. Then they say, 'But doesn't it need a small dog, and an Eskimo, and shouldn't it be set in New Guinea?' And you say, 'But it is a sophisticated romantic comedy set in Paris.'

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
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• I had been a radical, a left-wing politico, and meeting the Indian people made me realize that the politics of the left and the right were so much less important than the politics of the heart and the spirit.

  

  Larry Brilliant
  • People
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• I always wanted to be an actor.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Always
  • Actor
  • Wanted

• God is going to supply a million dollars, somebody is praying right now, right this second, you’re praying for a million dollars and God said, 'I have heard your prayer, I know your need, and I'm going to supply the need that you requested,' it's done, in Jesus' name.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • God
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• You breathe better when you're rich.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Breathe

• Shapes of all Sorts and Sizes, great and small, That stood along the floor and by the wall; And some loquacious Vessels were; and some Listen'd perhaps, but never talk'd at all.

  

  Omar Khayyam
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• Everybody knows that you love me baby Everybody knows that you really do Everybody knows that you've been faithful Ah give or take a night or two Everybody knows you've been discreet But there were so many people you just had to meet without your clothes And everybody knows

  

  Leonard Cohen
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• Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Selfish

• Onstage I'm the one in control - I'm not at the mercy of how an editor chooses to put the scene together later. I can do things onstage that I would never do in real life. It's very freeing.

  

  Laurie Metcalf
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• I tend not to worry about things I can't do anything about. It's not in my nature to spend too much time thinking.

  

  Bo Derek
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• Since the adjournment of Congress the ratifications of the treaty with Great Britain for abolishing the mixed courts for the suppression of the slave trade have been exchanged. It is believed that the slave trade is now confined to the eastern coast of Africa, whence the slaves are taken to Arabian markets.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Great
  • Taken

• The goal of maximizing the welfare of all may be better achieved by an ethic that accepts our inclinations and harnesses them so that, taken as a whole, the system works to everyone's advantage.

  

  Peter Singer
  • May
  • Taken

• The character of the Open Conspiracy [the movement towards a world collective] will now be plainly displayed. It will have become a great world movement as widespread and evident as socialism or communism. It will largely have taken the place of these movements. It will be more, it will be a world religion.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • World
  • Great
  • Character

• Gloucester, we have done deeds of charity, made peace of enmity, fair love of hate, between these swelling wrong-incensed peers.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Done
  • Hate
  • Made

• You have no respect for excessive authority or obsolete traditions. You're dangerous and depraved, and you ought to be taken outside and shot!

  

  Joseph Heller
  • Taken
  • Dangerous
  • Authority