Joseph B. Wirthlin Quotes
When some people have a difficult job to do, they give up everything else until that job is finished. Others just give up.
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
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Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye.
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There comes a time when money doesn't matter.
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I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.
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I'm not actually even a very good singer. I'm not.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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Speaking is physically difficult for me.
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No one's gonna give a damn in July if you lost a game in March.
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I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.
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When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.
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It was just one of those moments in the universe that was mine.
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Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their own acts will care about those consequences and try to learn from their mistakes.
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From the moment I walked into the White House, it was as if I had no privacy at all.
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I went to a French immersion school, and French-Canadian improv is a big thing, and we had an improv team at school, and 12 of us would get up and make things up against other elementary schools. I'd always wanted to perform, and that was just another extension of it.
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We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.
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You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.
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Computers let people avoid people, going out to explore. It's so different to just open a website instead of looking at a Picasso in a museum in Paris.
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I'm a pro-horserace guy.
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Love and despair go hand in hand.
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Everything is nicer if you feel you're in love.
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I just don't have a tolerance for people being fake, I don't think. Maybe especially when I think they have bad intentions.
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You know, every family and every business in California knows what it means to go through tough times.
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I always knew I'd keep at it with the plodding doggedness that I used to master lump-less gravy and wriggle out of fitness classes; I always knew I'd get a zillion rejection slips. I figured I'd write part time while working various full-time office jobs, and maybe, maybe in my 50s, I'd be able to quit and try writing full time.
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When some people have a difficult job to do, they give up everything else until that job is finished. Others just give up.
