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Joseph Heller Quotes

Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: May 1, 1923 - December 12, 1999

Topics

Good Simple Luck Destiny Injustice

With Frat House, at times I needed to make music that would reflect what these fraternity brothers might actually listen to, but still keep it within the realm of a score; it still had to lead the viewer through the scene, or just help create the mood.

Music Help House Create Mood Listen

I wouldn't want to be in a Lisa episode. They're kind of boring. Maybe a Homer one would be better.

Better Want Kind Boring Would Maybe

Every time a new rock singer comes out they don't say, 'Are you the new John Lennon?' Every time a new rapper comes out, it's not, 'Are you the new Dre?' I am never sure why this sort of genre, the categorization is so strong. I have not earned the right to be called the young Sinatra, but give me time.

Time I Am Me Strong You Young

Becoming an Olympian is the ultimate reward for any athlete.

Michael Diamond

Reward Athlete Becoming Ultimate Any

I'm a geophysicist and all my earth science books when I was a student, I had to give the wrong answer to get an A. We used to ridicule continental drift. It was something we laughed at. We learned of Marshall Kay's geosynclinal cycle, which is a bunch of crap.

Science Wrong Earth Student Drift

I did not dedicate my life to making Baltimore a safer and more just place because it was easy.

Martin O'Malley

Life My Life Easy Place More Just

Making a film is beyond exciting. It's so exciting, it's exhausting.

Beyond Film Exciting Making

Most stories in 'True Blood' take place over a short amount of time. I think the entire three seasons of the show have only spanned a month and a half of those characters' lives.

Michael McMillian

Time Think Short Seasons Place True

If you want to make information stick, it's best to learn it, go away from it for a while, come back to it later, leave it behind again, and once again return to it - to engage with it deeply across time. Our memories naturally degrade, but each time you return to a memory, you reactivate its neural network and help to lock it in.

Memories Time Best Memory Help You

Everybody has said or done the wrong thing and regretted it later, but at the time, you really couldn't help it! As you get older, you're more guarded, but that's a really tough process of learning, to be brutally honest, about some things and keeping your mouth shut about others.

Learning Time Tough Help You Mouth

Always, if you win prizes and are successful, of course expectations are higher, at Bayern especially.

Win Expectations You Always Higher

I'm not against watching myself, but I miss a lot of it. I've got two little kids who we don't let watch TV.

William H. Macy

Myself Watching Two Little Against

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