Joseph Heller Quotes
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I try to mix it up! I do a little Pilates. I do a little Cardio Barre; sometimes I run or do the stairs.
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All my wife and I do is fight about sex. The other night, we really had it out. Well, I'll put it this way - I had it out.
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Those then who know not wisdom and virtue, and are always busy with gluttony and sensuality, go down and up again as far as the mean; and in this region they move at random throughout life, but they never pass into the true upper world; thither they neither look, nor do they ever find their way, neither are they truly filled with true being, nor do they ever taste of pure and abiding pleasure.
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As we learn about each other, so we learn about ourselves.
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When I promise I'll do something, I do it. At least since I got sober.
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How can something that's 95% water be so divisive? Alone among vegetables, the poor, innocent stick of celery elicits the most vicious attacks.
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I grew up very differently than a lot of other people in my hometown in Mississippi. But I can't imagine my life any other way. I flew home and surprised my best friend at his graduation, and I remember turning to my mom and saying, 'My graduation was so much cooler than this.' I had Melissa Joan Hart give my commencement speech.
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You are wrong. The state and its existence are essential before everything else. All this preoccupation with liberty is not serious.
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Don't go looking at me like that because you'll wear your eyes out.
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The Way begets one; one begets two; two begets three; three begets the myriad creatures.
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Sunlight is the best disinfectant.
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I was into punk rock back when I was in high school. I used to go around to dive venues and take photographs. But now it's been just much more about the country stuff and soulful folk.
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My parents don't have any showbusiness links. They are so far away from it.
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My favorite novel is 'To Kill a Mockingbird' because of its broad sweep, its tackling of big issues in ways that even young minds can make sense of and for the heart of the characters, who span a wide range of ages. I reread it every year.
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The market has a simple way of whittling all excessive pride and overblown egos down to size. After all, the whole idea is to be completely objective and recognize what the marketplace is telling you, rather than try to prove that the thing you said or did yesterday or six weeks ago was right. The fastest way to take a bath in the stock market or go broke is to try to prove that you are right and the market is wrong.
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An expert gives an objective view. He gives his own view.
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When people disagreed with him he urged them to be objective.
