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.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Up
  • Work
  • Business

• I am not an American; I am the American.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • American

• For me as an actor, daring is to tell the truth - to be yourself, no matter how the world interacts with that.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • World
  • Truth
  • Yourself

• Boys are like puppies, but the thing I find terrifying is how do you steer them?

  

  Talulah Riley
  • You
  • Like
  • Find

• We can transform the government and the economy, as well as democracy, in Malaysia.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Government
  • Democracy

• 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.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Funny
  • Know
  • Best

• 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.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Up
  • Job
  • Morning

• Your own shoes are hard enough to fill, but somebody else's are even tougher.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Enough
  • Shoes
  • Hard

• When you have a specific vision for something, you just go in and attack it.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Vision

• 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.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Up
  • World
  • Feeling

• It is my worst experience, my worst trip to the Balkans.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Experience
  • Trip
  • Balkans

• The only things we keep permanently are those we give away.

  

  Waite Phillips
  • Giving

• 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.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Feeling
  • Heaven
  • Loved

• 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.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Believe
  • America

• As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.

  

  Arthur Rimbaud
  • Rivers
  • Ferrymen

• 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.

  

  Octavius Winslow
  • Men
  • Die
  • Jesus

• The truth of Zen is the truth of life, and life means to live, to move, to act, not merely to reflect.

  

  D. T. Suzuki
  • Life
  • Live
  • Truth

• Sarcastic Science, she would like to know, In her complacent ministry of fear, How we propose to get away from here When she has made things so we have to go Or be wiped out. Will she be asked to show Us how by rocket we may hope to steer To some star off there, say, a half light-year Through temperature of absolute zero? Why wait for Science to supply the how When any amateur can tell it now? The way to go away should be the same As fifty million years ago we came- If anyone remembers how that was I have a theory, but it hardly does.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Why
  • May
  • She

• When you understand your obligations to God then you can understand your obligations to society.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • God
  • Society
  • Understand

• I'm really going off of watching John Waters speak one time and I remember he just kind of talked and it was totally interesting. I wanted to hear about his life and how he got started and when did he think he made it, stupid stuff like that. And what his relationship with the mainstream is because he's so far out there, but then he became part of the mainstream in this weird way. He was really funny, though. Yeah, I have to work on my jokes.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Interesting

• Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.

  

  Olive Schreiner
  • Inside
  • Sides
  • Ridiculous

• And I needed a rock. Something to hold onto, to stand on. Something solid. Because everything was going soft, turning into mush, into marsh, into fog. Fog closing in on all sides. I didn't know where I was at all.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Rock
  • Sides
  • Rocks

• Now when you say you have cooperated with the prosecutor, does that mean, in fact, that you spoke to investigators or to the grand jury?

  

  Chris Wallace
  • Jury
  • Prosecutor
  • Investigators

• Jury selection is strictly an emotional process. They're looking for people they can manipulate. Both sides are.

  

  Joseph Wambaugh
  • Sides
  • Manipulate
  • Jury