Joseph Wambaugh Quotes
Jury selection is strictly an emotional process. They're looking for people they can manipulate. Both sides are.
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I don't really measure success by anything other than if I am happy. That is success to me. Am I happy waking up every morning? And despite the challenges of running my own business, do I look forward to going to work? Absolutely.
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I am not an American; I am the American.
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For me as an actor, daring is to tell the truth - to be yourself, no matter how the world interacts with that.
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Boys are like puppies, but the thing I find terrifying is how do you steer them?
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We can transform the government and the economy, as well as democracy, in Malaysia.
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The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.
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I've always prided myself on my discipline as a writer. I do it like a job. I get up in the morning and go to my desk.
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Your own shoes are hard enough to fill, but somebody else's are even tougher.
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When you have a specific vision for something, you just go in and attack it.
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That overachieving, ambitious, nobody-can-hold-me-down attitude I had, which came from a place of anger and aggression, has transformed into feeling like I will take on the world, but I will do it with an embrace, rather than with my dukes up.
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It is my worst experience, my worst trip to the Balkans.
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The only things we keep permanently are those we give away.
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My love for you, Lord, is not an uncertain feeling, but a matter of concious certainty. With your word you pierced my heart, and I loved you. But heaven and earth and everything in them on all sides tell me to love you.
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But I'm here to say that when we do speak out, we're going to do so because the United States of America does believe, and will always stand for, a certain set of universal values.
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As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.
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So completely was Jesus bent upon saving sinners by the sacrifice of Himself, He created the tree upon which He was to die, and nurtured from infancy the men who were to nail Him to the accursed wood.
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The truth of Zen is the truth of life, and life means to live, to move, to act, not merely to reflect.
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I am basically a citizen of the modern world, as we all are, praise the Lord and damn us all to hell.
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We culture. Rap is the new rock 'n roll. We the rockstars. It's been like that for a minute, Hedi Slimane!
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I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue would esteem nothing above it.
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The true authenticity of photographs for me is that they usually manipulate and lie about what is in front of the camera, but never lie about the intentions behind the camera.
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When I was at the CIA I asked my civilian advisory board to tackle some tough questions. Among the toughest: In a political culture that every day demands more transparency and more public accountability from every aspect of national life, could American intelligence continue to survive and succeed? That jury is still out.
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Jury selection is strictly an emotional process. They're looking for people they can manipulate. Both sides are.
