Joseph Heller Quotes

What is a country? A country is a piece of land surrounded on all sides by boundaries, usually unnatural. Englishmen are dying for England, Americans are dying for America, Germans are dying for Germany, Russians are dying for Russia. There are now fifty or sixty countries fighting in this war. Surely so many countries can't all be worth dying for.

Joseph Heller

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• War
• Fighting
• Boundaries

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  Zadie Smith
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• It is so difficult in the world for people to find love, true love.

  

  LaToya Jackson
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  • World
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• In 2009, I served as AARP's Ambassador of Caregiving. With a producer and cameraman, I traveled the country for months, interviewing hundreds of caregivers.

  

  Gail Sheehy
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• Things that came before, people and things and experiences – that does mean something to me. It doesn't mean I don't embrace the new, but I don't forget the past, either.

  

  Vera Wang
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• The University of Southern California has a wonderful social work department, and I was thrilled to find out that they have a whole veterans' initiative program there. They approached me, and I set up a scholarship that would go to a military-oriented person to learn techniques and skills to better help veterans.

  

  Gary Sinise
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• I'm an obsessive hiker and I do it every day for two hours and it really helps me when it comes to learning songs or scripts.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
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• Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Believe
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• Design is important, it's an important dimension in the car. It's not the only one.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Important
  • Car
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• Science consistently produces a new crop of miraculous truths and dazzling devices every year.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Science
  • New
  • Year

• I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Believe
  • Religious
  • Evolution

• These have always been my legs. I train harder than other guys, eat better, sleep better and wake up thinking about athletics. I think that's probably why I'm a bit of an exception.

  

  Oscar Pistorius
  • Up
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• Hamm: There's something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Heart

• We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian.

  

  Lionel Trilling
  • Believe
  • Heart

• I'm the most sampled and stolen. What's mine is mine, and what's yours is mine, too … I got a song about that … But I'm never gonna release it. Don't want a war with the rappers. If it wasn't good, they wouldn't steal it.

  

  James Brown
  • Good
  • War
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• I'll just close my eyes and whisper,

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Eyes

• Jerusalem is all about a very special relationship between the ground and the sky. This work attempts to bring the two together.

  

  Anish Kapoor
  • Work
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• One of the oddities about being Judy Garland's daughter was that everyone treated my mother with such awe that they would never have asked me the normal questions kids get about their moms.

  

  Lorna Luft
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• When I am president, I will work to ensure that all of our kids are treated equally and protected equally. Every action I take, I will ask myself, 'Does this make life better for young Americans in Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit, Ferguson, who have as much of a right to live out their dreams as any other child America?'

  

  Donald Trump
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• I remember being young in the 1960s... we had a great sense of the future, a great big hope. This is what is missing in the youth today. This being able to dream and to change the world.

  

  Bernardo Bertolucci
  • World
  • Great
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• The precise statement of any problem is the most important step in its solution.

  

  Ed Bliss
  • Problem
  • Solution
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• 'Tailgate Blues' is kind of a lyrical masterpiece of a country song.

  

  Luke Bryan
  • Country
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• My first-ever car, my parents bought me a red Fiat Uno. I was 17 and just so happy to have a car, so I was very fortunate that my parents were in a position to get me one - it was a secondhand car, but I was just so happy to have it.

  

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• Consumers used to think they had to compromise with solar. It was, 'Okay, I'm doing the right thing for the environment; it's cool to see the panels. I have to compromise on the cost and convenience side.' And now they no longer have to. On the cost side, it's cheaper, and on the convenience side, we set it all up.

  

  Lynn Jurich
  • Up
  • Cool
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• What is a country? A country is a piece of land surrounded on all sides by boundaries, usually unnatural. Englishmen are dying for England, Americans are dying for America, Germans are dying for Germany, Russians are dying for Russia. There are now fifty or sixty countries fighting in this war. Surely so many countries can't all be worth dying for.

  

  Joseph Heller
  • Country
  • War
  • Fighting