Frank Luntz Quotes
I've done reasonably well over the last 10 years because I took the strategy of language and politics and applied it to the corporate world, which has never been done before.
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I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.
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My father was a lawyer.
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During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
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A leader is admired, a boss is feared.
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Monkeys don't enjoy or appreciate flavours. Experts have told us that human beings are the only beings that can appreciate food at this higher level and the only living beings that cook.
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America slept because most Americans preferred it that way.
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Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.
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I don't see myself as a diva at all.
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If money was being invented now, it wouldn't be designed to look like cash or credit cards. It would look more like Bitcoin.
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You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.
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George loves the T Rex because it's the noisiest and the scariest.
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One of the main lessons I have learned during my five years as Secretary-General is that broad partnerships are the key to solving broad challenges. When governments, the United Nations, businesses, philanthropies and civil society work hand-in-hand, we can achieve great things.
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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The moment an athlete doesn't train, things start to get a bit rusty.
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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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Over the years, from serving in the CIA to sitting on non-profit boards, I have observed first-hand what the addition of even one woman to a meeting or to a decision-making body can do. Put simply, in very many instances, group dynamics improve markedly.
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Sell your intellectual property based on a track record of success and innovation.
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I know how to treat my voice to make it sound as good as it possibly can - which is still not that good.
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This means that if a person fulfills his or her vocation as a steelmaker, attorney, or homemaker coram Deo, then that person is acting every bit as religiously as a soul-winning evangelist who fulfills his vocation. It means that David was as religious when he obeyed God’s call to be a shepherd as he was when he was anointed with the special grace of kingship. It means that Jesus was every bit as religious when He worked in His father’s carpenter shop as He was in the Garden of Gethsemane.
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The last collaborator is your audience ... when the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you've written. Things that seem to work well -- work in a sense of carry the story forward and be integral to the piece -- suddenly become a little less relevant or a little less functional or a little overlong or a little overweight or a little whatever. And so you start reshaping from an audience.
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I've done reasonably well over the last 10 years because I took the strategy of language and politics and applied it to the corporate world, which has never been done before.
