Joseph B. Wirthlin Quotes
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I prefer drama; I think character-driven drama is my favorite kind of stuff to go watch, and I like being challenged by that kind of stuff in that way.
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I was a dispatcher, flat-tire fixer, changed the oil, fixed the fan belts. There was nothing too good for me.
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At MTV, although the audience is smaller, I found it more interesting to deliver news to a specific group of people, because my story then did not have to try to be all things to all people.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
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My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.
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The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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At the age of 11 I was about 6 ft. tall and my voice had completely broken. That caused problems. I was this gangly, spotty, very unattractive kid. I wasn't cool and I wasn't a nerd. I didn't even want to fit in with anyone.
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I was raised doing martial arts.
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When I wake up in a bad mood, I try not to stay in one. Learn to make the best of what you have.
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I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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Since beginning my work in areas like addiction, for example, I have seen time and time again that the roots of poor mental health in adulthood are almost always present in unresolved childhood challenges.
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Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.
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Let's face it; by and large math is not easy, but that's what makes it so rewarding when you conquer a problem, and reach new heights of understanding.
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Health care comprises nearly 20 percent of our national economy, but outdated bureaucracy and red tape have stifled competition and raised costs. As a result, today more than 45 million are without any health coverage.
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There's really nothing else I'm going to do with my life. I'd be useless if I weren't singing or acting.
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At one point, I worked up a list of five requirements for a superhero: superpowers, a costume, a code name, a mission, and a milieu. If the character had three out of the five, they were a superhero. But that's just my definition.
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'Gold,' says the Consul, knowing that this is the only syllable that has held its power over the ages.
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These dark days will be worth all they cost us if they teach us that our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.
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Jesus Christ is infinitely more than a great teacher and philosopher.
