Joseph B. Wirthlin Quotes
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Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.
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I can tell you, all the intelligence services in the world were running my name through their databases to see did anyone by this name come in the country? When? Do we know anything about it? Where did she stay? Who did she see?
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When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
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I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.
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When I pick my subcommittee chairmen, I look for people that understand what it's like to run successful businesses, who know what it's like to sign the front of the check instead of the back of the check: somebody that gets it.
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Put your consumers in focus, and listen to what they're actually saying, not what they tell you.
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The room-service Caesar salads with soggy croutons, the distant relatives who show up at readings pitching weird, far-fetched investment schemes, the fans who have you sign a book to 'Cathy' and then tell you, 'No, it's Kathy with a K' - it gets challenging after a while. It tests your stamina.
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The Bible has been through millions of rounds of exegesis and interpretation, but it hasn't been until quite recently that it's been taken as the absolute truth, to the point where people expect it to inform ideas about biology and life on this planet.
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I do a lot of working out, but I haven't been kicking for a while, so one time I was rehearsing a spinning roundhouse and darned near threw out my leg.
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I kind of have the most amazing fans ever. They are the most committed, passionate people, and I love them so much.
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I don't mind playing my music live. It's fun. But what my real passion is is writing music.
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One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.
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Eventually, I went to college to study psychology, but I was getting more and more TV roles, so I thought, 'You know? It's kind of like psychology, but a little more selfish.' I took a break from school, moved to L.A., and never went back.
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At the end of the day, I'm a man.
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I loved all of the 'Zenon' movies. Those were my jam mostly because of the fashion. I loved something about the space buns and the weird neon colors. I couldn't just wear that in real life because people would look weirdly at me, but maybe at a party or something.
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Apartheid cannot be reformed. It has to be eliminated.
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Civilisational triumph is thus not a zero-sum enterprise that favours one geo-cultural domain over another.
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Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
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It is reassuring for people to feel they have a boss, someone who knows the answers and has charted the course.
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I watched the 'Seven Samurai' a lot because I loved it growing up. I can't describe to you how powerful that was. When you're a kid, you can't watch an almost-three-hour movie, but this was a war I just never saw before, with these samurai. I could relate to it, just being poor.
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I feel like I'm in my own world: in the world but not a part of it.
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We will all rise from the grave.
