Joseph B. Wirthlin Quotes
We are all busy. It's easy to find excuses for not reaching out to others, but I imagine they will sound as hollow to our Heavenly Father as the elementary school boy who gave his teacher a note asking that he be excused from school March 30th through the 34th.
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You won't really get a lot of the mainstream, lovey-dovey side because that wasn't a part of my life in the beginning.
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The main thing that I learned from my horrible job experiences was how horrible they were.
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I think music needs danger; it needs risk.
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Bands that I've loved over the years are the ones that have a certain myth around them.
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There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, 'We're gonna have to clean that up because you don't paint with coffee on a table.'
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I like to go hear jazz late-night up in Harlem.
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There are certainly talented instrumentalists coming from India. I see them performing all over the world.
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No one's ever happy with their position in Hollywood. You hear that from people you'd never dream would complain.
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I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.
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A sociopath doesn't warm up their environment, doesn't make it cozy. They don't have to; when they're not performing, when they're not manipulating, when they're all alone, there's nothing.
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I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer.
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I'm interested in human nature. That's why I chose to become an actor.
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Too many trees are killed to print the words of people who may not have all that much to say, and authors and journalists are equally culpable in this regard.
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The only show my mother could afford to take me to when I was growing up was 'Cats', for my birthday.
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Don't believe that winning is really everything. It's more important to stand for something. If you don't stand for something, what do you win?
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I have a fear of things growing on things. I don't know where it came from. But I go hiking a lot, and sometimes I can't handle moss growing on trees or tumors on trees or mushrooms.
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I have a very big family and a lot of friends, and buying presents is one of my favorite things to do.
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I'm under contract. Whatever the UFC asks, I have to do because they are my bosses and they treat me very well. I can't complain about that, and it's this, man: When you have a boss, you need to follow orders.
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I don't make my own schedule - it's constructed around my sons' school schedules.
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I remember feeling a huge amount of anxiety and worry and pressure. At that point I was headed into acting school. That was 100 percent the only thing I thought I wanted to do. But then I got through my first year of college, and I was, like, humming and rolling around, pretending to be a lion in acting classes at NYU and visiting our classmate Charlie Gregg at Harvard, where he was actually learning things. So I changed my mind: I decided I actually wanted a different kind of education, and that was an incredibly freeing idea.
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I started harmonica at the age of four, and when I was 12 I started the guitar. Then I played at school.
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It is amazing how much our lack of trust provokes God if we request of him a boon that we do not expect.
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I love Manchester. I always have, ever since I was a kid, and I go back as much as I can. Manchester's my spiritual home. I've been in London for 22 years now but Manchester's the only other place, I think, in the country that I could live.
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We are all busy. It's easy to find excuses for not reaching out to others, but I imagine they will sound as hollow to our Heavenly Father as the elementary school boy who gave his teacher a note asking that he be excused from school March 30th through the 34th.
