Joseph B. Wirthlin Quotes
I love the German and the Swiss people for their many fine traits of character. I love their language that is so exacting and yet so expressive.
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Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
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Sometimes I try a Mai Tai. It's so fruity. It's a little embarrassing, but I like it.
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This work made me more and more interested in biological matter, and I decided that I really wanted to work on the X-ray analysis of biological molecules.
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No sensible author wants anything but praise.
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My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.
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Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.
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The newspaper is a marvelous medium. It is extraordinarily convenient and cheap. Let's see. This one cost 75 cents. Now that's a little high. I bought it when I was downtown this morning.
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Every training session, I try to simulate the conditions similar to where I am racing.
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If you're an artist, you're an artist; that's the only way I can explain it.
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In life go straight and turn right.
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America faces a new race that has awakened.
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Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement. Most productions don't manage that - but when an opera does do it, you never forget it.
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Being in the spotlight, you know, you tend to kind of forget who you are. And being an artist... it could be a very superficial job. It could be very pretentious as well.
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When you have a movie, you know who they start out as and where they go. But this is constantly changing, and you're growing with the character.
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The post-totalitarian malady has taken its most acute form in Romania. And it has taken place for very specific reasons. The repression here has been more cruel, more brutal, than in other states caught in the inferno of a 'socialist paradise.'
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My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.
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If you hear me out, I believe you'll discover that what motivates me more than any other issue is the defense of everyone's rights.
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Broadcasters or politicians or writers who think that they are respecting Struggle Street, the battlers, by dumbing things down into one-line sound bites are not respecting them, they are treating them with contempt. It's our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them.
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I see creative-writing classes as some sort of AA meeting. It is more of a support group for people who write than an actual course in which you learn writing skills. This support group is extremely important because there is something very lonely about writing.
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If you want people to know what your message is, just sing it.
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God grant, that not only the Love of Liberty, but a thorough Knowledge of the Rights of Man, may pervade all the Nations of the Earth, so that a Philosopher may set his Foot anywhere on its Surface, and say, 'This is my Country.'
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The good is the beautiful.
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This low-fat idea that's been drummed into our heads and bellies is completely off-base and deeply responsible for most of our modern ills.
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I love the German and the Swiss people for their many fine traits of character. I love their language that is so exacting and yet so expressive.
