Joseph Heller Quotes
I'll tell you what justice is. Justice is a knee in the gut from the floor on the chin at night sneaky with a knife brought up down on the magazine of a battleship sandbagged underhanded in the dark without a word of warning
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If you are unhealthy, start by making small changes to become healthier. You are unique, beautiful, and worthy.
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Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?
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Cats and I have an understanding, but we choose not to interact often.
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If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.
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Life is about balance, and we all have to make the effort in areas that we can to enable us to make a difference.
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Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
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If I can save one kid's life, for me, it's absolutely worth it.
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Kudos to you for generating enough sweat that it actually drips off of your body - and all over the machine you are using at the time. If you sweat a lot, that's fine, but wipe down the damn machine when you're done... or I will confront you, and it will not be pretty.
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I am not a good cue card reader.
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Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.
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I have had the problem of seeing my male model go to Italy and... stay there.
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As an actor, you arrive most of the time at the last minute. You arrive at the end of the process, but you don't realize it.
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My faith isn't very churchy, it's a pretty personal, intimate thing and has been a huge source of strength in moments of life and death.
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I have strong views about South African politics and I still don't feel I need to make public statements.
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My message isn't perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.
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It’s hard to be ignored When I look at you, you look so bored My baby, my darling, I’ve been taking a beating…Well alright (well alright) It’s okay (it’s okay) We all get the slip sometimes every day I’ll just keep it to myself in the sun In the sun
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She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.
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Some people didn't like the novel, it is in some ways extremely bleak. But if you are dealing with the kind of subjects I am - trying to demystify the delusions we have about ourselves, to get a more accurate fix on human nature - then people are unsettled. And the easiest way to deal with that is to say it's weird or it's cold.
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My name is Weegee. I'm the world's greatest photographer.
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My biggest hero in the whole world was my dad.
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You can’t repeat the past.” “Can’t repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you can!
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When you're a child, the most important thing is to be able to live a life of comfort. You want to be sure that the moon goes up at night and the sun comes up in the morning and dad comes home from work.
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Actually, the decision was not only expedient but necessary. The severity of this summary justice showed the world that we would continue to fight mercilessly, stopping at nothing. The execution of the Tsar's family was needed not only in order to frighten, horrify, and dishearten the enemy but also in order to shake up our own ranks, to show them that there was no turning back, that ahead lay either complete victory or complete ruin.
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I'll tell you what justice is. Justice is a knee in the gut from the floor on the chin at night sneaky with a knife brought up down on the magazine of a battleship sandbagged underhanded in the dark without a word of warning
