Joseph B. Wirthlin Quotes
Perfection is worth striving for, even if it is ultimately unattainable in this life.
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I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.
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The decathlon takes so long to learn that people who are good athletes don't want to go back to the beginning again.
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On the Internet, inside information is currency, and there will always be counterfeiters among us.
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
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France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
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Ireland was, of old, called the Isle of Saints because of the great number of holy ones of both sexes who flourished there in former ages or who, coming thence, propagated the faith amongst other nations.
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I don't run after successful directors. I give importance to the content of the film.
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I love old movies. The '40s theatre pace is fantastic.
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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn't feel right to me – ever.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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Hearing a whole entire room sing back to me, 'I guess it's true I'm not good at a one-night stand,' you know, I just can't explain the feeling. It's unreal. You feel like you've just read your diary to thousands of people and they've gone, 'It's okay. We still love you.'
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My dad met my mom at Casper College in the orientation line. He studied business and eventually transferred to the University of Wyoming at Laramie.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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As far as money goes, there's a saying in Denmark: 'Your last suit doesn't have any pockets.' You can't take it with you. You can make all the money you want, but who cares?
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As a New Yorker, or wherever I am, I just want to know I can get our of the house in five minutes if I have to and not have to spend a bunch of time obsessing in the mirror, trying on a million different options. Now, I just know what works.
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People - and dogs - are dying to be trained.
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If Asian America exists, it is because of systemic racism.
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I definitely love when things get gritty and they get a bit dirty!
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No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.
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There's a lot of people over time who have brought out all these funky records that everybody has started jumping on like a catch phrase... When Planet Rock came out, then you had all of the electro funk records.
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For my life, I need to make my own choices.
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Perfection is worth striving for, even if it is ultimately unattainable in this life.
