Quote by Joseph Heller
Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was th

Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else. – Joseph Heller

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Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all three. – Joseph Heller

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I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long. – Joseph Heller

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The Oscars demonstrate the will of the people to control and judge those they have elected to stand above them (much, perhaps, as in bygone days, an election celebrated the same). – David Mamet

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He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, for he knew when he pleased he could whistle them back. – Oliver Goldsmith

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The one who pleased everybody died before they were born. – Proverb

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True popularity is not the popularity which is followed after, but the popularity which follows after. – Lord Mansfield

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