Joseph Heller Quotes
There's a rule saying I have to ground anyone who's crazy ... There's a catch. Catch-22. Anyone who wants to get out of combat duty isn't really crazy.
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I try to give my best to everything I do. I don't think of housework as beneath my dignity; that's just the way I was brought up.
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I know that I am an excellent live performer. I know that I have spent my life paying attention to my art form, developing my art form, worrying about my show and what it is I'm bringing to people, making sure that I give them a fine trade. They get a two-hour show, sometimes a three-hour show, for a decent price.
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In India, by and large, women are not educated enough to be bread winners and, within the moorings of traditional cultures, do not have the courage and the capacity to leave the matrimonial home. Given the inequality prevalent in family structures, the woman's right to opt out is suicidal.
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We need to build opt-in society, outside the U.S., run by technology.
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Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.
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I just don't let music genres define me.
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Folk tales and myths, they've lasted for a reason. We tell them over and over because we keep finding truths in them, and we keep finding life in them.
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As governor of California in 1970, Reagan endeared himself to millions of conservatives nationwide when he publicly rebuked the anti-war movement that was exploding on college campuses.
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Caste is not just a division of labour, it is a division of labourers.
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Hauer looks for laws. Good. But he looks for them where he will not find them.
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Better to be cast out of the church than to deny Christ.
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I can't bear to think of life without Janice. I want to go first because I don't want to miss her, because that would be a pain far worse than any death.
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I don't really understand how to do bureaucratic things - school-system things.
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When there were cases of Ebola in the States, I respected that people wanted to address concerns and take some sort of action, but the focus turned completely to the U.S. At one point, we started to wonder, Where is the Ebola epidemic happening? The States - or West Africa?
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I don't think I've ever been called up for an action film with a male lead - which is a shame. I'd love to take on Bond.
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I would like to play every day. Whether or not that happens, we'll see.
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My views tend to be centrist. I'm not a big fan of George W., but my politics tend to be more Republican than not.
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I think that a woman that is elegant herself is somebody who can dress herself easily and effortlessly.
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That is when the crowd really lifted me. That last 600 meters I was not running with my own legs. It was incredible.
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And I plan to write a sequel to Dragon Rider.
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My duty is that of a chronicler; and if I perform that conscientiously, the lessons which my observations suggest will need no pointing out.
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The most basic duty of government is to defend the lives of its own citizens. Any government that fails to do so is a government unworthy to lead.
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Fundamentalists are crazy. They're the real world equivalent to the evil geniuses of our spy fiction and our superhero comics. They want to mold the world into a specific shape that they really believe in, and if you don't believe in that, if you can't relate to that, it just seems crazy.
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There's a rule saying I have to ground anyone who's crazy ... There's a catch. Catch-22. Anyone who wants to get out of combat duty isn't really crazy.
