Joseph Heller Quotes

Someone had to do something sometime. Every victim was a culprit, every culprit a victim, and somebody had to stand up sometime to try to break the lousy chain of inherited habit that was imperiling them all.

Joseph Heller

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• You need a big ego to be an artist.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Artist
  • Need
  • Ego

• There can be a lot of mind games going on between the players. When you're about to serve, people will try to throw you off your rhythm by taking a walk. If you're tired, you can't show that at all to an opponent.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • People
  • Mind
  • Tired

• My position is that since the non-secular status of my garden is not recognised by the law; by the world of the public, then the garden can only be private. So, I closed the garden to the public.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • World
  • Law
  • Garden

• I was doing comedy in laundry mats in 1992, literally where I would bring a little gorilla amp and a lapel mike and just start performing.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Comedy
  • Doing
  • Start

• Pretty much everyone on my iPod, I'd like to be friends with. But I'd say that the main two that I'd love to get into a conversation with are Werner Herzog and Graham Hancock.

  

  Finn Jones
  • Friends
  • Like
  • Conversation

• A show that no one thought had a chance has just finished its fifth year: Charmed. I think it's tougher for the younger networks, so I think they have a little more patience for the sake of the show. But who knows?

  

  Aaron Spelling
  • Thought
  • Patience
  • Year

• Individuals with kidney disease who are able to obtain treatment early experience a higher quality of life and are able to maintain more of their day-to-day activities, including keeping their jobs.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Quality

• The artist who imagines that he puts his best into a portrait in order to produce something good, which will be a pleasure to the sitter and to himself, will have some bitter experiences.

  

  Jacob Epstein
  • Good
  • Best
  • Bitter

• My aim is that every sermon series I preach is prepared as though I were teaching a college-level course.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • College
  • Teaching
  • Aim

• I'm not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Life
  • Understand
  • Sure

• I am interested in how human beings react to crisis and conflict.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Conflict
  • Interested
  • Crisis

• I've started several small businesses myself and know that it is tough out there for the little guy in the global economy. I came to the conclusion that, oftentimes, the best thing the government can do for small business is to stay out of the way.

  

  Jared Polis
  • Business
  • Guy
  • Small

• We can put millions of America's idle young people to work helping to repair and restore America's deteriorating infrastructure, public utilities, and transportation systems. Nothing would revitalize the nation's sagging economy more than such a commitment.

  

  Bernice King
  • People
  • Work
  • America

• Wealth is the progressive realization of worthy goals, the ability to love and have compassion, meaningful and caring relationships.

  

  Deepak Chopra
  • Goals
  • Compassion
  • Meaningful

• 'Moral police' is my new word. I am very against the media doing moral policing, giving opinions on actor's lives. Media should not become moral police; they should just report.

  

  Katrina Kaif
  • Giving
  • Moral
  • Police

• I work in politics and media, two industries that have been particularly affected by the issue of misconduct. We have seen famous and powerful men finally pay a price for behavior they got away with for decades. Many have lost their positions and status - rightly so.

  

  Ana Navarro
  • Work
  • Men
  • Lost

• Well, religion has been passed down through the years by stories people tell around the campfire. Stories about God, stories about love. Stories about good spirits and evil spirits.

  

  Andrew Greeley
  • People
  • Good
  • God

• I'd like to stay in Chicago, but if they don't want me, somebody will.

  

  Jake Arrieta
  • Chicago

• I studied law, economy, international relations, communications, in order to find what I would do. It's the hardest thing, being 17 and trying to find what to do in life. You've explored so little. I'm lucky: My parents let me explore.

  

  Mario Testino
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Parents

• I'm not trying to keep up or adapt. I'm allowing myself to grow, evolve and create new music.

  

  LL Cool J
  • Up
  • Music
  • Trying

• What is the cruelest thing you can do to someone who is trying to concentrate? Call their name.

  

  Bela Karolyi
  • Trying

• I know that here and when I was in Philly, they did the best they could to keep their best player. Ultimately, that decision is going to come down to the player, but they have to do their best to keep them happy. Thus far, they've done that here.

  

  Eric Snow
  • Happy
  • Player
  • Decision

• Someone had to do something sometime. Every victim was a culprit, every culprit a victim, and somebody had to stand up sometime to try to break the lousy chain of inherited habit that was imperiling them all.

  

  Joseph Heller
  • Trying
  • Habit
  • Break