Joseph Heller Quotes

They couldn't keep Death out, but while she was in she had to act like a lady.

Joseph Heller

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• I had to skydive for the movie and I was terrified. Like everybody, I thought it was going to be one of those experiences that changes your life. It didn't.

  

  Yancy Butler
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• I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
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• And my mouth is not a sewer, although some people may think it is.

  

  Laura Prepon
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• I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.

  

  T-Pain
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• The Americans are more honest about it and just call it college rock.

  

  Malcolm Wilson
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• I started off in comedy, but that's just where I got my work. I've always been an actor.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Work
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• I think that ISIS is a threat to our embassy, to our consulate, as well as potentially to the American people.

  

  Rand Paul
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• The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Day
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• If a reviewer is beating me up, I just say, 'Oh well, my writing is not to his or her taste.' And that's as far as it goes. Because I will simultaneously read a review where somebody says, 'Oh my God, I had so much fun reading this book and I learned so much.'

  

  Dan Brown
  • Up
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• Fandom is amazing.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Amazing

• 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
  • Winner

• The American consumer, even today, the weight of the American consumer in the global economy is China plus India doubled. So, it's tough to replace that.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • American
  • Today
  • Tough

• Some people think that being in government for a long time is a bad thing. But the more you stay, the more you learn. I am now an expert in governance.

  

  Yoweri Museveni
  • People
  • Time
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• Men think for themselves when they’re men.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Men

• Not enough gets said about the importance of abandoning crap.

  

  Ira Glass

• ...People that don’t have any interest in the psychology of nuance, who need everything to be in their face, who don’t want to analyze... those aren’t the people I romanticize about dressing.

  

  Marc Jacobs
  • People
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• You're the soldier girl who tells the other troops who haven't fought the battle what it's like so they can fight it better.

  

  Anastacia
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• There's no evidence whatsoever that Darwin had anything useful to say or anything to say period about how life began or how the universe began or how gravity began or how physics began or fluid motion or how thermodynamics began. He had nothing to say about that whatsoever.

  

  Ben Stein
  • Life
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• I am such a 'True Detective' fan. I was anticipating it each Sunday as it came. I'm kind of a sci-fi fan. I was really hooked on the 'Battlestar Galactica' series. I think I owned every box set of 'Battlestar Galactica.' I also really love 'Bob's Burgers.'

  

  Pedro Pascal
  • True
  • Sunday

• We must create the conditions for immigrants to normally integrate into our society, learn Russian and, of course, respect our culture and traditions and abide by Russian law. In this regard, I believe that the decision to make learning the Russian language compulsory and administer exams is well grounded. To do so, we will need to carry out major organisational work and introduce corresponding legislative amendments.

  

  Vladimir Putin
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• It’s not only corruption that distorts the utopian impulse when it begins to take some specific social shape. The prospect of more freedom stirs anxiety. We want it, but we fear it; it goes against our most deeply ingrained Judeo-Christian definitions of morality and order. At bottom, utopia equals death is a statement about the wages of sin.

  

  Ellen Willis
  • Death
  • Freedom
  • Fear

• The national raisin reserve is real.

  

  David Fahrenthold
  • Real

• Most people just want to be part of the world, they want to live, love, and enjoy themselves - to take part in the world around them. Whereas artists are always retreating, locking the door, and inventing other worlds.

  

  Paul Auster
  • People
  • World
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• They couldn't keep Death out, but while she was in she had to act like a lady.

  

  Joseph Heller
  • Death
  • Lady