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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Baby I stayed with you so long that I lost myself.
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If there was any teacher in the world who insisted upon the inexorable law of cause and effect, it was Gautam, and yet my friends, the Buddhists outside India, would, if they could, avoid the effects of their own acts.
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I once picked up a woman from a garbage dump and she was burning with fever; she was in her last days and her only lament was: My son did this to me. I begged her: You must forgive your son. In a moment of madness, when he was not himself, he did a thing he regrets. Be a mother to him, forgive him. It took me a long time to make her say: I forgive my son. Just before she died in my arms, she was able to say that with a real forgiveness. She was not concerned that she was dying. The breaking of the heart was that her son did not want her. This is something you and I can understand.
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You'd have to be daft as a brush to say you didn't like Pink Floyd.
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He was sick with lust and mesmerized with regret
