Joseph Heller Quotes
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I am not opposed to intelligence reform on its face, but any changes should reflect the current context.
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The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.
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Fine art is really something I want to get into.
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You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them.
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Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.
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What we should grasp, however, from the lessons of European history is that, first, there is nothing necessarily benevolent about programmes of European integration; second, the desire to achieve grand utopian plans often poses a grave threat to freedom; and third, European unity has been tried before, and the outcome was far from happy.
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'A splendidly inept thing,' Sylveste said, nodding despite himself.'What?''The human capacity for grief. It just isn’t capable of providing an adequate emotional response once the dead exceed a few dozen in number. And it doesn’t just level off-it just gives up, resets itself to zero. Admit it. None of us feel a damn about these people.'
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I think the season I had playing as a kid against men in Reunion toughened me up a lot and taught me how to cope with hits.
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I believe chemistry is based on the trust between two performers. What actually works is something intangible - being extremely comfortable in each other's presence.
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The unfortunate reality is the alt-right has captured white people's imagination.
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Elvis wore a halo. Otis Redding did, too. You knew you were playing with a star when you played with them.
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I played with two lines of action figures when I was a kid: G.I. Joe and Star Wars.
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In the mornings, I use a good moisturiser and a colouring lip balm. In the evenings, though, I like to go a little glam.
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Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.
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People failed to realize that when you're living such a hyper, super reality of a life, where you're just doing shows and you're on TV and you're talking to this magazine, that doesn't bode well for trying to talk about everyday stuff that hopefully you'll connect with people on.
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The future is always a dystopia in movies.
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America was the one territory where they didn't release 'Nights In White Satin' at the time it was made. It was about three or four months later, after 'Tuesday Afternoon,' so I think we have a special fondness for it.
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Things pop out of people's mouths that you wouldn't expect them to say, so I've stopped trying to guess ahead of time who might be interesting to talk to.
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I think one of the traps of theater - what makes it so amazing is that it's not able to be mass-produced, but it also makes it hard to get work seen by people because if you're a creator, you do a cabaret or something, and maybe 100 people will see it and then it ends the night that you close it.
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The discovery of HIV in 1983 and the proof that it was the cause of AIDS in 1984 were the first major scientific breakthroughs that provided a specific target for blood-screening tests and opened the doorway to the development of antiretroviral medications.
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The state does not function as we desired. A man is at the wheel and seems to lead it, but the car does not drive in the desired direction. It moves as another force wishes.
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Acting requires focus, too, but acting doesn't, you might say, demand focus. When you're in the ring you don't even have to think about focus because the danger is so imminent. Imminent. You train and you prepare and then the adrenaline kicks in and drives you into focusing intensely. You'd better focus, right? Or else you'll make your exit on a stretcher.
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The obligation on us is to communicate the truth so that it is understood. The belief will take care of itself.
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Erogenous zones are either everywhere or nowhere.
