Joseph Heller Quotes
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When it comes to setting the market values, I let that stuff take care of itself. I know my value in this league, and I know the team appreciates me. I'm going to continue to make myself an indispensable part of this roster. When you do that, when your time comes up to get a contract, you usually get a contract extension.
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It's lovely to be considered pretty and lovely to do photo shoots, and I just love fashion. But I'm proud that I did the characters I wanted to do.
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I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.
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When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.
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I just kind of assumed that you do a movie and then you leave and you hop onto the next thing. I never thought that people are actually buddies.
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I think that our comfort is in our history.
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Obviously I love 'The Godfather' movies. I think they're phenomenal.
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Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
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In my opinion, right up there with free public schools, our free public library system is what makes citizenship possible, even what makes America great.
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People forget actors can adapt and change their appearance. In this industry, people sometimes cast to type, or as close to type as possible, but actors are a lot more versatile than you think!
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I don't go out of the way to take special care of myself.
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I will only speak off the record about Debra Winger.
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If it sells, it sells. If it doesn't sell, I'll go make a movie.
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I believe everything falls into place as it's supposed to.
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The greedy man is he who habitually eats too much, knowing that he is injuring his bodily health thereby, and this is a vice to which not the gourmet but the gourmand is a slave.
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When it comes to landing a good job, many people focus on the role. Although finding the right title, position, and salary is important, there's another consideration that matters just as much: culture.
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I go the VA Hospital when I have a problem and the doctor jumps on me.
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Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.
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Who imagined that what I said upon my departure from Beirut would become a reality, when I said the volcano and typhoon which started in Beirut will not stop.
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Why should I apologize because God throws in crystal chandeliers, mahogany floors, and the best construction in the world?
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I think that always makes it fun, trying to create a heroic character and putting your own twist on it and injecting your own personality into it.
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Misanthropy ariseth from a man trusting another without having sufficient knowledge of his character, and, thinking him to be truthful, sincere, and honourable, finds a little afterwards that he is wicked, faithless, and then he meets with another of the same character. When a man experiences this often, and more particularly from those whom he considered his most dear and best friends, at last, having frequently made a slip, he hates the whole world, and thinks that there is nothing sound at all in any of them.
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If character is destiny, the good are damned.
