David A. Bednar Quotes

Disciples who are steadfast and immovable do not become fanatics or extremists, are not overzealous, and are not preoccupied with misguided gospel hobbies.

David A. Bednar

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• I tell myself every offseason I'm not going to say anything crazy. I'm just going to have a peaceful season... Can't do it. I'm cut from a different cloth.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Different
  • Crazy
  • Myself

• The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Life
  • Together
  • Peace

• I never seek controversy or foresee it for my pictures. I take a personal stand, and perhaps because my films are on contemporary subjects, people do not share my point of view.

  

  Otto Preminger
  • People
  • Stand
  • View

• The only people that have ever fought ISIS in Syria is not the regime; it is the Free Syrian Army.

  

  Jack Keane
  • People
  • Free
  • Army

• Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Find
  • Humor
  • Celebrate

• The words we use have weight. Whether it's in a conversation with a friend or something said publicly on stage or broadcast. And as performers, we know that because that's why we choose the words we use - that's the whole point of comedy.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • Why
  • Words
  • Comedy

• I know there is a stereotype that I am naive, but I know what I want, and I know what I'm doing to get there.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Want
  • Stereotype
  • Naive

• After ten or twelve years you can only play something so long and then you start to parody it.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Long
  • Play
  • Start

• I'm not afraid of a big studio film; I trust my instincts. But for me, it's not really about box office. It's about looking back on your work and not having to apologize for it.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Work
  • Trust
  • Looking Back

• When I was a 25-year-old kid, I raised $260,000 for my first show, 'The Pajama Game,' in such a homemade, pathetic, endearing way - a buck here, a buck there.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Game
  • First
  • Kid

• Most of the things that really matter require faith. 'How do I know that my wife loves me?' 'How do I know that Mozart's 'Jupiter Symphony' is sublime and beautiful?' There are all sorts of things which come at a more lowly level than that - 'How do I know that two plus two equals four?' There are different layers, different types of knowing.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Different
  • Beautiful
  • Faith

• There's something great about all your worst fears coming true and being said about you. There's a tremendous liberation on some level.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Great
  • True
  • Said

• The question about my Canadianness comes up a lot, and I'm never quite sure what to say about it. I've carved a life out for myself in Oregon, and it feels like home, not because it's the States but because that's where my friends are and where my son is.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Life
  • Up
  • Home

• I enjoy now doing what I do... playing golf, relaxing a little, enjoying life.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Life
  • Enjoy
  • Golf

• An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant as the case may be.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Girl
  • Surprise
  • Engagement

• By the sympathy of your human hearts for sin ye shall scent out all the places - whether in church, bedchamber, street, field, or forest - where crime has been committed, and shall exult to behold the whole earth one stain of guilt, one mighty blood spot.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Earth
  • Church
  • Sympathy

• The world increasingly allows girls to be whoever they wish to be- homemaker, mother, secretary, executive.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • World
  • Mother
  • Wish

• He used a name for himself, true, but we played at Romance, and this is a game where truth is a bagatelle.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Truth
  • True
  • Game

• The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable.

  

  Andrea Dworkin
  • Reality

• There's no such thing as an ex-junkie.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Junkie
  • Exes

• The worst thing that can happen for people who don't want women to be strong is that we help each other and become a force.

  

  Sarah Silverman
  • People
  • Strong
  • Helping

• As long as you have a director, that's your feedback. It's the director telling you, "Okay. That was great! Okay. Can we add a little? Can you tweak it like this? Can you make it more high pitched? Can you give it a little growl?"

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Great
  • Long
  • High

• Disciples who are steadfast and immovable do not become fanatics or extremists, are not overzealous, and are not preoccupied with misguided gospel hobbies.

  

  David A. Bednar