Dieter F. Uchtdorf Quotes

The love of Christ is not a pretend love. It is not a greeting-card love. It is not the kind of love that is praised in popular music and movies.

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• I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.

  

  Mamie Van Doren
  • Women
  • Star
  • Woman

• Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce, are, in my view, missing the real issue.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Real
  • Marriage
  • Gay

• It always surprises me when donors who operate successful businesses assume that just building a school structure means that a community now has access to education. When creating a business, does renting an office space now mean that you're producing goods, training staff and generating revenues?

  

  Adam Braun
  • School
  • Business
  • Education

• My mother certainly never altered the topics of her conversation based on children being present.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Present

• One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Important
  • Business
  • High

• The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Life
  • Time
  • Real

• The Arab states don't seem to do a good job of providing for their own people, so I am not sure why they would suddenly develop an ability to help the Palestinians.

  

  Walter Russell Mead
  • People
  • Good
  • Why

• Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Band
  • Years
  • Thought

• It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Like
  • China
  • Egg

• People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Music
  • Way

• My father used to tell me about how musicians don't have respect from people and he was afraid about my future.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • People
  • Father
  • Future

• My dad is truly the person who always made me believe in myself, to appreciate that I was smart.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Believe
  • Dad
  • Myself

• I think Barack Obama was born into a home not just to a white woman and white grandparents, but a white woman and white grandparents who shockingly told him it was okay that he was black and that he should not be ashamed of it and that he should, in fact, be proud of it.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Home
  • Black
  • Proud

• People that don't know me get 'Mossed'. It means, I was gonna go home, but then I just got led astray. In the best possible way, of course. I mean, it's always fun, and a good time.

  

  Kate Moss
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Community
  • Value
  • Moment

• If I get too type-cast, that's the worst possible scenario.

  

  Larry Drake
  • Worst
  • Possible
  • Too

• It was really fascinating for everyone involved in 'Fargo' that Marge Gunderson became the iconic character she did. I think it was something about the cultural zeitgeist and what was happening with women in the workplace.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Women
  • She
  • Character

• Any reaction is better than none.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Better
  • Reaction
  • Than

• I am not against standardized tests. There are tests and tests and tests, and, to simplify, the ones I favor are criterion-referenced tests of skills, aligned with the curriculum. Social and emotional skills are important but skills are too. I find it heartbreaking that this is so often seen as an either-or choice. To get to the richness of studying literature, for example, you must first be an adept and confident reader. Whether you are is something a good test can measure.

  

  Nicholas Lemann
  • Skills
  • Tests
  • Curriculum

• Drawing and visual pursuits were first. Music came and found me in a way. Really, what it's about is creative problem solving, and music is a lot more an expression of that than painting is for me.

  

  Brandon Boyd Incubus
  • Music
  • Painting
  • Drawing

• Tech never comes back the same.

  

  Samuel J. Palmisano
  • Never
  • Same
  • Back

• In 2001, terrorism was fought in a completely different way.

  

  Corey Hawkins
  • Different

• The Notorious B.I.G.'s album 'Ready to Die' is an incredible chart of a man's life - it begins with his birth, you hear his mother giving birth, and it goes through the decades.

  

  Chris Ofili
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Giving

• The love of Christ is not a pretend love. It is not a greeting-card love. It is not the kind of love that is praised in popular music and movies.

  

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf
  • Music
  • Popular