Joseph B. Wirthlin Quotes

Each night before I go to bed, I take out a small card and write a list of the things I need to do the next day in order of their priority.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

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• The college years are when you sow all your wild oats and become a vampire. By 40, you've lived it up. At least, you hope.

  

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• You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

  

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• If there's one message I want people to take away is never compromise being your authentic self. Even if that means making others uncomfortable.

  

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• I mean normally you have your agent call the other agent and all the agents talk and then finally you get a phone call and you hear some misrepresentation of what someone else had to say.

  

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• Some might consider me an unlikely advocate for gun rights because I sustained terrible injuries in a violent shooting. But I'm a patriot, and I believe the right to bear arms is a definitive part of our American heritage.

  

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• My brother is really, really slow.

  

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• They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high school, college, junior college, somewhere. Or, you should have had to have been around the game for a long time.

  

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• If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will.

  

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• Photography, painting or poetry – those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.

  

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• Though men may be deep, mentally they are slow.

  

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• There are people who want me to do a cologne. They want to call it 'Patrick.' I was offered a fortune to make exercise videos. Posters, all kinds of stuff – something like $10 million worth. It's insanity. I'm not going to do any of it.

  

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• On the tour we get a case of beer on the bus every day from Ozzfest.

  

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• Coffee is my water now.

  

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• As a professional actor, I don't have much choice about what I've gotten into. I tend to be cast in comedies and I'm fine with that.

  

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• I have a friend in New York who's a stylist and I went over to her place because she's got a lot of clothes. I basically ended up wearing most of it. So it's all stuff that I brought over.

  

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• If I have any advantage, maybe, as a writer, it is that I don't think I'm very interesting. I mean, beginning a novel with the last sentence is a pretty plodding way to spend your life.

  

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• For us to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other and especially to ourselves. The lies are necessary because, without them, many deplorable acts would become impossibilities.

  

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• Each night before I go to bed, I take out a small card and write a list of the things I need to do the next day in order of their priority.

  

  Joseph B. Wirthlin
  • Night
  • Small
  • Priority