Joseph Heller Quotes
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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The latest revelation - from no Mount Sinai, Sermon on the Mount or Bo tree - is the outcry of mute things themselves that we must heed by curbing our powers over creation, lest we perish together on a wasteland of what that creation once was.
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A month alone would make me so happy. Not good for my dating prospects.
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Technology is vital. We have to have development in new technology if we're going to solve these environmental problems without throwing humanity back in poverty.
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Early in the morning, it's super tough for me to eat right away, but I still need energy for practice. I try to start out with a protein smoothie, a green juice, or some sort of fruit.
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I feared vulnerability more than my actual emotional pain itself!
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I definitely look up to Veronica Roth, Suzanne Collins, and J.K. Rowling.
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I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.
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My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and there was very little time. The door was closing, and I wanted to get Bosnia through before it shut.
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We all have hourglass figures; your sand just settles in different places.
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At 39, I was back in a Red Wings uniform and loving it.
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The ability to convince people of the wackiest notions - and both parties can do it - it's part of the dumbing down of America that's really highly problematic.
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We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do.
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I see flaws as a kind of beauty.
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I was always a closet lover of acting. My mom was very practical. She never, ever restricted our dreams, always told us we could do or be anything. Then I said, 'Maybe I want to be an actor'. And she said, 'Maybe not that'.
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I just love comic books. I've always loved comic book art, and I just think it's amazing.
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A good apology is like antibiotic, a bad apology is like rubbing salt in the wound.'
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Life is too short to pursue every human act to its most remote consequences; 'for want of a nail, a kingdom was lost' is a commentary on fate, not the statement of a major cause of action against a blacksmith.
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A cat may looke on a King.
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I think there are a lot of similarities between writing and music. Music is much more direct and much more emotional and that's the level I want to be at when I'm writing. Writing is much more intellectual and indirect and abstract, in a way.
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When I read poetry, I read it aloud. It's so much better that way.
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I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.
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One doesn't become a soldier in a week - it takes training, study and discipline. There is no question that the finest Army in the world is found in the United States.
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The question is: what is a sane man to do in an insane society?
