Joseph B. Wirthlin Quotes
Immorality, violence, and divorce, with their accompanying sorrows, plague society worldwide.
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I'm not into things that feel like a sequel. There's just something magical about when something happens for the first time.
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I don't try to just be a blues singer – I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
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I came of age as a male lead actor just as the TV landscape dramatically shifted.
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I've always been taught that hard work doesn't fail.
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You can take of a man's money, but when it's all said and done, you've only taken his money.
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Love is the one wild card.
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I'm a great bum, and I'm a pretty good director.
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It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.
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I don't have an MBA, and I didn't go to Yale. I'm not an academic person and wasn't a good student. Instead, I've been taught by some of the most inspiring people in the world.
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My influences change all the time; they have to remain current, because they're the things that capture your imagination and make you want to go into the studio.
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Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
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Everybody has done something about Marco Polo. It's the tiredest, most trite and worked-over subject in the world, and that was why it appealed to me, because I wanted to do something really new and different about something that had been worked over all these centuries, and I think I did.
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I did the Kannada film when just out of school. I didn't know anything about the South Indian film industry at that time, and I did the film to earn some pocket money. I realised then I like acting.
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I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.
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As an actress, the joy of being able to play the three sides of any woman, which are the glamour, the pragmatic and the one not to be messed with, is pretty glorious.
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Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world.
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The grand saga of how humans spread across the globe will need some amendments and annotations – rendezvous here, elopements there, and the commingling of genes most everywhere.
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The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society.
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Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
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Oscar Williams’s new book is pleasanter and a little quieter than his old, which gave the impression of having been written on a typewriter by a typewriter.
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I like to wear my dad's shoes to auditions as sort of a lucky thing. I feel like I'm on solid ground.
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Into it in the end, but she’d gotten the feeling he’d only relented to placate her, to ease some of the tension that’d crept into their marriage. And by then it was too late. A month later she was attending his funeral. Oddly, she didn’t feel the gut-wrenching loss that normally accompanied any thought of her late husband. Did that mean she was learning to live without him? Or was it the hope of having a child that buoyed her spirits? If she was pregnant, it would be more than a little ironic that it had happened with Maxim… “Get this over with,” she said aloud.
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Immorality, violence, and divorce, with their accompanying sorrows, plague society worldwide.
