Joseph Heller Quotes
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The human rights record within China seems to rise and fall over time, but it's very clear that in the run up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics and since then, there's been a greater intolerance of dissent and the human rights record of China has been going in the wrong direction.
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When you're not having to deal with all those polling sites it simplifies one's life considerably,
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I had no idea of being a star, all I knew was that I wanted to be a great actress, I wanted to work as an actress. So I thought the way I would be a great actress was to sing and dance first. Lay a foundation - get my foot in the door, and then undoubtedly, of course, I would be offered great roles as soon as I grew up enough to handle them.
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If you have fame, you never feel that you have fame, if you have the brains of a flea. Because fame is something that's over back of you. It ain't ahead.... Not ahead at all. I mean, if you've done it that's great, but "what are you going to do now?" is the only thing that matters.
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Beginning of all knowledge comes from humility.
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So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
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Perhaps Fate laid out your life for you like a dress on a bed, and you could either wear it or go naked.
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Age is nothing but experience, and some of us are more experienced than others
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I've always said, 'I don't want to be irrelevant.'
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From the beginning of time, we've had financial crises. People always blame the banks and for good reason. When you look for the root causes, they're almost always failed government policies.
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I gave my artistic laugh and also threw in some quirky language for good measure. "Lawks-a-mercy, no! I'm going to have a long bath and..." I looked shyly down. Which is pretty impressive to have done artistic laugh, quirky language and shyness all in the space of ten seconds.
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What I know for sure is this: You are built not to shrink down to less, but to blossom into more. To be more extraordinary. To use every moment to fill yourself up.
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It is written in the code of love: He who strikes the blow is himself struck down.
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There's no twilight in the tropics. Night falls like a curtain.
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I mean another thing I thought was, for example, important about Early One Morning, how long it is and you don't get it all in one.
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The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity. To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task.
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You can't make everyone happy right away, you can't figure out what people want you to do, you just have to do what you want to do and hope it works out.
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Contacting and living from our True Self is the central task of personal growth.
