Joseph Heller Quotes
The Lord gave us farmers two strong hands so we could grab as much as we could with both of them.
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I need to feel as if everything is clean and in its proper place before I can even attempt to write one word. At least, that's what I tell myself. I make the bed, I put away the dishes, maybe I dust, maybe I do the laundry, maybe I go to the post office.
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France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness.
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
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Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.
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It's not what other people believe you can do, it's what you believe.
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The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
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I've always wanted to take up work that my heart is convinced about. And I shall continue to do so.
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I think St. Jude helped me achieve some miracles in my life - that's why I wear the medallion in my left ear and never take it out.
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I'm aware that many of my friends will be saddened and shocked, or shock-saddened, over some of the chapters in 'The Catcher in the Rye.' Some of my best friends are children. In fact, all my best friends are children. It's almost unbearable for me to realize that my book will be kept on a shelf, out of their reach.
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I will run against anybody.
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We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.
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I still believe in love. I believe in marriage.
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A lot of songs you write are just for exercise - just pencil sharpeners.
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I love working and writing new songs. But sometimes you need to wait, to have something in your mind, and then you can let yourself play music.
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But if you're doing something, show up everyday, and something good might happen - it's not going to happen if you don't show up.
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I don't come and fight for fun. I don't do that. I don't like to hurt people for fun.
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To the more judicial and scientific temper of our day their invective would seem overdrawn and their sympathy would seem partisanship. In Jeremiah and in the prophetic psalms the poor as a class are made identical with the meek and godly, and 'rich' and 'wicked' are almost synonymous terms.
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The CIA and the Mafia are in cahoots
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I started writing my first book for young people when I was in college. I was only a couple of years out of my teens when I began; I felt closer to that experience than I did as an adult. But I've always been drawn to stories about young people.
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
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People are looking for software development that actually does something useful... People are looking for partners who deliver when promised, and at a reasonable and transparent price. I believe that the days of being able to value price software are numbered.
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In a lifetime of observing and participating in political debate, I have seen a lot of meanness.
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I lost in the 1988 Olympics, and I was pretty depressed for about eight years. I quit wrestling, and I got into Brazilian jujitsu in 1991.
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The Lord gave us farmers two strong hands so we could grab as much as we could with both of them.
