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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But he has left us the legacy of heroes—the memory of his great name, and the inspiration of his great example.
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They shut down kids' homes, for a number of reasons, and I was part of that transition into foster care. That's all well and good if it's populated by people who feel their work is paid decently and supported.
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There is direct correlation between a society lacking in artistic vision to lack of social conscience, i.e., crime, poverty, and senseless, violent atrocities, materialism.
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As we now know, cyberspace did not liberate human society from pre-existing socioeconomic hierarchies and power structures.
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If you grow up in the South Bronx today or in south-central Los Angeles or Pittsburgh or Philadelphia, you quickly come to understand that you have been set apart and that there's no will in this society to bring you back into the mainstream.
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The question is: what is a sane man to do in an insane society?
