Frank Luntz Quotes
The challenge in working in politics, particularly if you're working for a political party, is that everyone's a messenger.
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Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.
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Clothes are a big part of a free society, I think, and what you wear is so indicative of the political climate you're living in.
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Sometimes you've got to know when it's time to leave the party.
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Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy. What does social democracy mean? It means a way of life which recognizes liberty, equality and fraternity as the principles of life.
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When you're writing a book, you don't really think about it critically. You don't want to know too well what you're doing. First, you write the book, then you find the justification for it.
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The biggest challenge is always the governments - they try to stop all good things. I try to stay away from them as much as I can, as I know if someone can destroy something good, it's the government.
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The right-wing of the Republican party isn't so much a political agenda as a plea for help.
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It takes heart to be in political life.
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One of the defining dynamics of 2008 has been the emerging wave of new, young voters getting involved and storming the gates of the traditional political establishment.
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On one side, citizens have great respect for the United States; they have a great feeling of friendship. That is solid. But in the opposition and in the political arena I often find criticism of the closeness of relations with the United States. That is a reality.
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I know from an editor's point of view or a publisher's point of view it's easier to slot me into a particular niche. But I know that I'd be bored unless I wrote a book that in some senses was a challenge.
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In general, if signs of sectarianism do appear in a Socialist Party, these are only the products of the absence of a broad Labour movement in the country.
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I created my own charity called My Peak Challenge. We've been able to raise hundreds of thousands of pounds. It's helping change people's lives, and I've had lots of wonderful letters about it.
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I wanted to be an animator originally. I went to art school; I went to art college and everything. But that screen was just calling me.
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In dance you use every party of your body except your voice. I wanted to start acting because I wanted to use my voice.
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You can think what you like of Madonna - about her political choices and her PR - but you have to respect her courage not to let the critics stop her exploring her potential.
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I'm not a party person.
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I was scared, because I knew that in the political arena, you have to satisfy so many different types of people at once, and I wasn't sure that I could speak for everybody and be politically correct.
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There's so many other things I want to do. I don't want to do them to be different or just for a challenge, but because my heart and soul tell me to.
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The biggest challenge has been simulating a tornado with wind machines and dirt and debris. Right when you walk on the set, you feel the energy of a tornado. But the hardest thing is trying to get dialogue out in all of that.
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Had Luther and Calvin been confined before they had begun to dogmatize, the states would have been spared many troubles.
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At home, I make a large batch of tomato sauce and freeze it in meal-size portions in freezer bags.
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It's not like every director in every movie is seeking me out by any means, there are a lot of things I'm not suited for, a lot of things I'm not interested in, and a lot of things that directors wouldn't be interested in me for.
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The challenge in working in politics, particularly if you're working for a political party, is that everyone's a messenger.
