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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If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.
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I know this is economic jargon, but essentially, if you bring more women to the job market, you create value, it makes economic sense, and growth is improved. There are countries where it's almost a no-brainer: Korea, Japan, soon to be China, certainly Germany, Italy. Why? Because they have an aging population.
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Experiencing those moments of being alone... is a very, very weird flooring and exposing position to be in when you're just not used to it... But I've never been lonely. And with my kids Mia and Joe that remains the case.
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Today, our attention is less than the television advertisement. We're looking at six or seven problems constantly. We're living in the disturbed societies of cities. I think modern technology is one of the worst things human beings have invented.
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When Shanthi Ranganathan was the featured turn on 'Hip Hop Saved My Life With Romesh Ranganathan,' we learned she didn't allow him to have a girlfriend until he'd finished university, and she learned - to her unfeigned horror - that he used to sneak girls into the house when she was out.
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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.
