Joseph Heller Quotes
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I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
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To get an Army that's already fighting a war to change in stride to a total different military strategy on the ground - and to get everybody on the same page - was accomplished by the sheer force of Dave Petraeus' will.
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Is it written that equality between men and women means one can change sex? Obviously not.
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Love thy neighbor - and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier.
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So, I think that Marilyn, what she gave the world, and in many ways Kennedy too, was that they had dreams and they didn't allow anybody to take away their dreams.
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There is no bigger aphrodisiac than power.
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It's only fair that stable gay relationships of long standing should have the same rights and responsibilities as married couples. I know the image of gay marriage is to some people horrific and ludicrous.
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We must restrict the anonymity behind which people hide to commit crimes. As citizens, we have a right to privacy. We have no such right to anonymity.
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To all the parents out there, thank you for allowing me to be a role model for your children. I really, really do not take that for granted.
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How do we teach a child - our own, or those in a classroom - to have compassion: to allow people to be different; to understand that like is not equal; to experiment; to laugh; to love; to accept the fact that the most important questions a human being can ask do not have - or need - answers.
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When they have really learned to love their neighbours as themselves, they will be allowed to love themselves as their neighbours.
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I adore Madrid. It's my city. If I ever move, it will only be for work. Whenever I travel, I always want to get back home.
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People who take risks like Amy Winehouse and Norah Jones take a second to catch on, but eventually they do because they're different and honest in a musical landscape that's not always like that.
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My illustrious lordship, I'll show you what a woman can do.
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The destination is a happy life, an accomplished life that doesn't end with death but with eternal life.
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I was already in my early twenties, but I looked much younger because I was fresh-faced and, well, short. So I did songs such as 'Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah' and jokes such as describing current events as 'ancient history.' Boy, did the audience roar at that one.
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And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.
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I paint as a way of looking for myself in the world.
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I'm like an actor who obnoxiously says he doesn't watch his own TV show. It is extremely rare for me to read my own comics and have asked publishers to please stop sending them to me.
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It's a universal story, it's an immigrant story, and it's a love story. In the United States, if you believe in yourself and you're determined and persevere, you're going to succeed.
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While also, importantly, not wanting to dumb it down or pretend the days of 'difficult' poetry are over, because we live in a pluralist culture and there's room for 'difficult' poetry alongside rap and everything else. And poetry won't be for everyone, but everyone should have the choice.
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I would have been able to free a thousand more slaves if I could only have convinced them that they were slaves.
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He was sick with lust and mesmerized with regret
