James E. Faust Quotes
The priesthood of God is a shield. It is a shield against the evils of the world. That shield needs to be kept clean; otherwise, our vision of our purpose and the dangers around us will be limited.
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Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
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Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.
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My number one thing is to recycle everything from newspaper to aluminum cans, and I even use a canvas bag instead of the plastic ones when I go to the grocery store.
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I doubt anyone else would have travelled as extensively as I have to meet the citizens of the country.
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I was in love with my wife and she was in love with me. We got along wonderfully.
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By channeling my inner heiress, I created a new opportunity for young heiresses.
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We need not worry so much about what man descends from - it's what he descends to that shames the human race.
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I believe America wants and needs the shared experience of television. We far too often see in crises how television brings us together.
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The Old Firm clubs are not easy clubs to manage and sometimes I think frustration comes in that, in the end, make you happy to be leaving.
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My father was a construction worker most of his life. My mother, when she came from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, to the United States, never had a chance to go to college either and became a clerical worker. But they did nothing but build this country.
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When I graduated college, I had a fairly successful weekly club gig and was buying more studio equipment and writing my own music. I realized I didn't want to work.
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Law school and summer camp are the two experiences that inform pretty much all I do.
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Vegetarians in general don't like me.
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I knew what normalcy was, and I wasn't having it.
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It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to understand the composer's works.
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Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.
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Somebody can become a celebrity for being stupid. That is what it's turned into.
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I think subsuming political and economic conflicts into some grand 'clash of civilisations' theory or 'the West versus the rest' binary is a particularly insidious form of ideological deception.
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There's a long life ahead of you and it's going to be beautiful, as long as you keep loving and hugging each other.
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An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
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Along the way, everyone's been saying, 'Make sure you take care of your voice because you're going to want to do it the rest of your life.' And it's absolutely true.
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If we stop thinking of the poor as victims or as a burden and start recognizing them as resilient and creative entrepreneurs and value conscious consumers, a whole new world of opportunity will open up.
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I went out into the woods for a few days. I just disconnected from everything and allowed myself to be free and be human. Because, that's what makes you really good, if you can be vulnerable, if you can be vulnerable on stage.
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The priesthood of God is a shield. It is a shield against the evils of the world. That shield needs to be kept clean; otherwise, our vision of our purpose and the dangers around us will be limited.
