David O. McKay Quotes
As precious as life itself is our heritage of individual freedom, for man's free agency is a God-given gift.
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When I graduated from university I tried to buy a beeper, and it cost me $250. My pay at the time was $10 a month.
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Cultures and races are mixing in a very organic way in the world, and that should be reflected in film and television.
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Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.
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Over the years, the most ponderous problem for women has been that men think that men and women are very different. Another of our massive problems is that women also think that men and women are very different.
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The idea would be in my mind - and I know it sounds strange - is that the most important advances in medicine would be made not by new knowledge in molecular biology, because that's exceeding what we can even use. It'll be made by mathematicians, physicists, computer scientists, figuring out a way to get all that information together.
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Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.
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Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
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The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.
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Husbands and wives, first be faithful to each other. Second, keep the romance going all of your life by courting each other every day.
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I had to start being aware of what I ate, what I'm planning to eat and take my twice-daily medication accordingly. That's not so difficult now, but when you're 10 years old, it's tough, let me tell you.
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After five years in Ferrari, being second all the time, I think it was enough for me.
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My creativity all comes from the same place. I wear one very comfortable, large hat.
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It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.
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You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.
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Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
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Most of us were probably less than immaculately honest as teenagers; it's practically encoded into adolescence that you savor your secrets, dress in disguise, carve out some space for experiments and accidents and all the combustible lab work of becoming who you are.
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People - and dogs - are dying to be trained.
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When I was 12 or 13, I realised I was good, but I never knew how far I'd get.
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When you expect to get into a negotiation, you expect to be faced by a guy that's going to attack you, a guy or gal that's going to attack or that they're going to try to get the best of you. Two-thirds of us, that makes us very defensive.
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I don't have a shred of regret about entering the exchange-rate mechanism.
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We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective.
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The most effective way to shake an economy out of a terrible downturn when we're at the zero lower bound is an aggressive change in policy that makes people wake up, say 'this is a new day' and change their expectations.
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As precious as life itself is our heritage of individual freedom, for man's free agency is a God-given gift.
