Joseph Heller Quotes
Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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I really like 'Roar' and 'Dark Horse.' 'Dark Horse' I really like, and I feel I would sing that in the bathroom; I would buy that album, and I think Katy Perry's amazing!
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end.
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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
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There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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Why do I always choose the shopping cart with the squeaky wheel? Is it my bad luck, or are all the carts dysfunctional?
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If you do like what you do, you're cooperating and sharing.
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I'm very curious to know what it's like, death - I always say to my wife, 'I wonder if we'll have the 'New York Times' when we're dead.'
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I look for struggle in the roles I choose - struggle and perseverance.
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I have an outdoor kitchen at home in Georgia, and I try to never eat inside.
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There's a lot of pressure on Broadway. There's this feeling that the show has to be a commercial success and the producers have to make their money back and Tonys and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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In sub-Saharan Africa, fewer than 1 in 5 girls make it to secondary school.
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Numerous are the posthumous museums and memorials devoted exclusively to one artist, architect or author and designed to preserve or artificially reconstruct the namesake's original working or living conditions.
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I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile.
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I've never taken myself too seriously.
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Quite frankly, I think if a man or a woman likes their American job, wherever they were born, they should be able to keep that job. We need a clear path to citizenship for workers who are already here and a fair and efficient on-ramp for those who want to come here.
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A lady once asked him how he came to define 'pastern', the knee of a horse: instead of making an elaborate defence, as might be expected, he at once answered, 'Ignorance, Madam, pure ignorance.'
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We're all capable if we have faith and passion.
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I haven't had a drink in thirteen years, but occasionally I'm tempted to have one beer. The problem is that if I have that one beer, I wake up in Tijuana four days later with a tattoo and a sore ass.
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I had this dream to be a rapper when I was younger.
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Are people behaving as if they believe this is a weak economy? I see no indication of that. In fact, I see the contrary.
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I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
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We realised that the safer creative people and craftsman feel, the better the collection they produce. If they do a better collection, my revenues grow. It is not easy to attach figures, but it is what happens.
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Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.
