Joseph Heller Quotes
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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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My government has the challenge of addressing the issue of gas. The issue of gas cannot be addressed today without the participation of all Bolivians alike.
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Focus on the long term, and always do what's right to grow the company and not make short-term decisions. And outlast everyone one.
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I do what I believe the Lord did, and that is walk in love with all mankind, which I don't see a lot of Christians doing. Christians can be so judgmental that it can turn off people who are considering converting. It makes me a little embarrassed, to tell you the truth, when I hear Christians criticizing others.
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You only mature when you face problems you can't deal with.
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My parents told me either I choose badminton, or school has to make the best of me.
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Every song is like a kid. How can you have that many kids and have a favorite? Which one do I like to hang most with?
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Scotland's political identity was destroyed, and a huge Scottish emigration to North America followed the brutal Highland clearances. These included every layer of Scottish society, not just the remnants of the defeated clans.
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Having refuted, then, as well as we could, every notion which might suggest that we were to think of God as in any degree corporeal, we go on to say that, according to strict truth, God is incomprehensible, and incapable of being measured.
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Written and directed by French showman Georges Melies, 'Le Voyage' features one of the most indelible images in cinema history: the wounded Man in the Moon bleeding like a particularly runny Brie, grimacing in pain with a space capsule protruding from his right eye.
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I used to be able to eat and drink whatever I wanted. But now, when I'm in a suit and tie all the time, sitting and being driven, you can just feel your body.
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You could time a suburban story by your watch: it lasts as long as it takes a small furry animal that's lonely to find friends, or a small furry animal that's lost to find its parents; it lasts as long as a quick avowal of love; it lasts precisely as long as the average parent is disposed on a Tuesday night to spend reading aloud to children.
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I just want to write another record that's as good or better than the one I've already made. That's my main goal, to follow up stronger than before.
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I really had little interest in becoming famous. When I write my book, it will be my guide to avoid becoming a rock star.
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We used to fight the LRA with only one dimensional force that only walks on foot, but now, we have got multiple forces to fight the rebels.
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Et maiores vestros et posteros cogitate.
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For the first time in American history, men in authority are talking about an 'emergency' without a foreseeable end,...Such men as these are crackpot realists: in the name of realism they have constructed a paranoid reality all their own.
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She supposed she ought to feel impressed that Genar-Hofoen was sticking to his principles in the face of imminent death-and she did feel a little admiration-but mostly she just thought he was being stupid.
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The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.
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Nobody would know I was a German - ain't it?
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We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.
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Originally they wanted it to be bigger, but I pleaded and pleaded and pleaded to have the smallest tonsure that they could get away with. A tonsure that could still be seen, but, I worried about my social life!
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...Anything worth dying for ... is certainly worth living for.
