Frank Luntz Quotes
I don't understand why people whose entire lives or their corporate success depends on communication, and yet they are led on occasion by CEOs who cannot talk their way out of a paper bag and don't care to.
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When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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Trump wants to build a wall at the border of Mexico, while Clinton wants to tear down all walls.
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When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.
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I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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I don't care much about hardware. Nintendo games are some of the best games in the world, and from a more graphical standpoint, the Wii can't do what a PS3 or 360 can do.
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I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.
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I cannot go to Montreal without going to Beauty's, my favorite place for breakfast, where I have the Mish-Mash omelet with hot dogs, salami, eggs, green peppers, and onions, and the best banana bread in the world. It's legendary!
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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Israeli citizens deserve full-time ministers.
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Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.
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I started acting when I was seven. And I went to a local drama school which is very well-known in London. Because of that, I started getting jobs, and I worked all the time as a child, pretty much non-stop.
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I'd been touring for so long, seven years. For a year and a half I'd just been curious about what it was like not to tour. It's like if you were to lift a 100-pound barbell with your right arm for seven years, eventually you'd get really curious about what your left arm was capable of.
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Making music is fantastic.
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Awards are so unnecessary because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself.
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Photography is something you learn to love very quickly. I know that many, many things are going to ask me to have their pictures taken and I will take them all.
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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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There's only so many variations on the basics of human relationships. To me, it's all about the detail and how you tell the story. How you say, 'I love you.'
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The data - on issues and on Trump himself - keep pointing back to 'one-in-four' as the true size of Trump's base. It is around one in four who like the tweeting, like the insults, the things other people say are mean or unproductive behavior.
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There are two questions that you ask yourself as a writer, and one of them is, 'But why?' The question that takes the book forward is, 'What if? What if x y or z happened? How would those characters react?'
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I don't understand why people whose entire lives or their corporate success depends on communication, and yet they are led on occasion by CEOs who cannot talk their way out of a paper bag and don't care to.
