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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My father was a stone mason, and a talented amateur pianist and vocalist.
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And that's the key to George W. Bush: It's that he wants to be the smartest person in the room. But in order to be the smartest person in the room, you kinda have to fill that room with a lot of dim bulbs. And that's where we get the Alberto Gonzaleses, and the Harriet Mierses, and the 'you're-doing-a-heck-of-a-job-Brownie''s.
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I was working at this club in downtown L.A. from four to eight at night, just Eddie Rubin, the drummer, and I.
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You go in the weight room and you lift weights and you do all these things to strengthen your body. This is strengthening your mind. When you can stay focused and you can use that focus to always come back with your breath to center yourself, so that you're kind of floating in the moment, in the spirit.
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We have 200,000 kids a year who drop out of the French school system and have no hope. They become a drag on society.
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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.
