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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Looking back... I think the North Koreans think they can say whatever they want because no matter what they do, the Americans will never attack them.
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Never give up: There are certain times that you think, 'OK, you have beaten me down to my knees. And now the challenge is, I am on my knees and you keep on beating me down. And the question is, are you going to keep beating me all the way to the ground or will I find a way to struggle my way back on to my feet.'
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I pinch myself every night when I hear the overture starting. I'm so overwhelmed by the whole process, and humbled and giddy all at the same time because I can't believe it's me that gets to sing these songs every night.
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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
