David O. McKay Quotes
Prediction of the fall of Russian communism: 'Russia enveloped with communism-a new religious freedom must come. God will overrule it, for that people must hear the truth, and truth in simplicity. Truly there is much for the church to do in the coming century.'
Quotes to Explore
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Before the Internet, before BBSes and Fidonet and Usenet and LiveJournal and blogs and Facebook and Twitter, before the World Wide Web and hot-and-cold-online-everything, science fiction fandom had a long-lived, robust, well-debugged technology of social networking and virtual community.
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When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden.
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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
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I dread shooting with animals. I hope I never get a script with snakes.
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I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
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If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.
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Law school and summer camp are the two experiences that inform pretty much all I do.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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I grew up in a mostly Buddhist environment.
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Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.
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I'm gonna sing, and I'm going to make me a lot of money.
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We live in bodies that are fearfully and wonderfully made, yet they are not immune to illness and pain. We have hearts that are capable of experiencing great love, but sometimes they get broken.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.
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I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.
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I lived through many battles - the 1973, I was young; in 1982 with the Israeli invasions, and 2006 between Hezbollah and Israel. Before I emigrated to the States in '83, I had my own very black and white views of the Israelis and the Jews in general. But you start to understand that no matter what you think, there are two perspectives.
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If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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I love travelling, and had the pleasure of being in the most developed country in the world and then parts of two of the most pristine natural areas of the world: the Galapagos islands and the Equador Amazon jungle. The contrast was incredible.
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People like me write because otherwise we are pretty inarticulate. Our articulation is our writing.
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Gender is more of a continuum than we are willing to admit when we hit the restroom.
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We want to encourage people. We want to help them. We want them to see all the good things God has placed in them and give them a right future.
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Probably a mistake, you know, that people make in America, to think that all great chefs are a male... I'm still the only male in the family who went into that business.
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Prediction of the fall of Russian communism: 'Russia enveloped with communism-a new religious freedom must come. God will overrule it, for that people must hear the truth, and truth in simplicity. Truly there is much for the church to do in the coming century.'
