Brigham Young Quotes
Which would you part with first-your tobacco, your whisky, or your religion? Your tea, or your religion? Which would you shake hands with and bid good-bye for ever-your coffee, or your religion? I should think I had disgraced the man that stands before you this day, if I loved any object on the earth better than I love my religion and my God.
Quotes to Explore
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Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.
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The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to provide an alternative to war. The onus is on them to explain just cause.
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There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again.
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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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Fundamentally, I do agree, certainly, people must be allowed to express their own opinions freely. Freedom is part of the essential rights of all nations.
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Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.
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Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it.
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I feel very, very, very intent on only releasing things that I believe are fully worthy.
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Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.
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The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media.
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In its truest manifestation, where it gives judgments, poetry is super-luxury. It would be interesting to see what would happen to a High Court judge if he were forced to follow the true poetic formula, doing the job for love, being forced into pubs for relief.
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Right now I'm really happy with how things are going with my chess career, so I'm not thinking of doing anything else.
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I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.
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We try to guide with a light touch. Sometimes we can be helpful, and my goal with my team, both on the series side and on the film side, is that the collaboration should always be invited. In other words, we're not looking to impose our view on the filmmaker; we hire a storyteller because we love the story, and we love their ability to tell it.
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I want to live my life naked, with all my little naked kids naked in the garden.
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I base jumped off one of the highest buildings in the world.
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It doesn't really feel like it's got anything to do with me. I mean, I know I wrote it, and all that and invented the characters and made it up, but it's Mike's film, so doing the press and stuff, it feels a little bit inauthentic. I was just one component of it.
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To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
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I'm not saying that what the radio plays isn't good. My issue is with what they don't play. You can play Jay-Z, but why don't you play Jurassic 5? You can play Nas and Nelly, but why don't you play J-Live? I want to open up the door to how it was back in the day.
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I have always been convinced that if a woman once made up her mind to marry a man nothing but instant flight could save him.
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You have to be able to communicate the vision to the people in your organization so that they know where and how they should direct themselves on a day-to-day basis.
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Nothing fails like success.
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My intention was to create something that people loved to look at and they could find inspiration from, and that was it.
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Which would you part with first-your tobacco, your whisky, or your religion? Your tea, or your religion? Which would you shake hands with and bid good-bye for ever-your coffee, or your religion? I should think I had disgraced the man that stands before you this day, if I loved any object on the earth better than I love my religion and my God.
