Brigham Young Quotes

My business is to obey when the Lord commands, and this is the duty of all mankind.

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• One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Doing
  • Direction
  • Group

• Of course as children, we all, in all cultures and societies, learn behavior from observation, imitation, and encouragement of various kinds. So by the suggestion made, we all 'pretend' most of the time.

  

  Gary Gygax
  • Time
  • Children
  • Learn

• What is Oracle? A bunch of people. And all of our products were just ideas in the heads of those people - ideas that people typed into a computer, tested, and that turned out to be the best idea for a database or for a programming language.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • People
  • Best
  • Ideas

• I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • God
  • Rights
  • Capitalism

• It is well known that Turkey has more imprisoned journalists than any other country, but as a result of the chilling effect of these prosecutions on the press, many stories never make the news.

  

  Safak Pavey
  • Country
  • Never
  • News

• So obviously, any religion embodies some form of rules and expectations for behavior, and even sometimes consequences, and they don't want to hear any of that.

  

  Pat Boone
  • Want
  • Religion
  • Expectations

• My idea of artistry has always been 'try everything until you find out what works.'

  

  Usher
  • You
  • Find
  • Try

• 'Pomegranate,' started with my imagining a bullet going through the fruit and causing it to bleed. My initial associations were with pomegranates in old masters painting and their Judeo-Christian symbolism.

  

  Ori Gersht
  • Christian
  • Painting
  • Fruit

• I really cut my teeth on off-off-off Broadway shows.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Teeth
  • Broadway
  • Cut

• Don't you want to know what's real and what's not? I remember when I was a kid, you know, this whole Cold War thing. They had us scared of the Russians. So, it's almost like, what's real and what's not?

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Real
  • Remember
  • War

• Truthfully, the person with whom I identified most in Heinlein's early works was Rhysling in 'The Green Hills of Earth.'

  

  Pamela Dean
  • Earth
  • Green
  • Most

• You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Book
  • Age
  • Black

• Basically the school system sets you up with what it wants to set you up with. They're really good at it. I think they're too good. Problem is, what they're doing is conditioning kids to merely accept the culture at hand. But the rebels won't accept it.

  

  Jack Bowman
  • Up
  • Good
  • School

• I consider myself fortunate to have grown up in Brooklyn. It's what gave me my drive to succeed, the upward mobility I've been after my whole life.

  

  Ian Schrager
  • Life
  • Me
  • Succeed

• Would you know my name if I saw you in heaven? Would it be the same If I saw you in heaven?

  

  Eric Clapton Blind Faith
  • Heaven

• American history has always had elements of what we now think of as Trumpism - Joe McCarthy, George Wallace, Father Coughlin. It's not as if these things haven't always existed, and they were powerful. The big difference is Trump is president.

  

  Bill Kristol
  • American
  • History
  • Father

• It's good to feel stupid sometimes and do things that are out of your comfort zone.

  

  Mary-Louise Parker
  • Good
  • Stupid

• Curvy girls can pull off any look - it's what we do.

  

  Ashley Graham

• Guilt: punishing yourself before God doesn't.

  

  Alan Cohen
  • God

• As a woman, a lot of stories haven't been told and we've got a lot of catching up to do.

  

  Lili Taylor
  • Up

• I think to close half of Magic Kingdom for the purpose of a White House invitation town hall meeting on a phony main street on behalf of a phony president just strikes me as weird.

  

  Newt Gingrich
  • House
  • Purpose
  • Weird

• The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.

  

  Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • Calm

• I have never written a book that I wouldn't want to read. The trouble is, I love to read horror, sf, fantasy, mysteries, hero pulps - romantic fiction, in the original, traditional meaning of that term, as opposed to mimetic fiction. But most of all, I love thrillers.

  

  F. Paul Wilson
  • Book
  • Hero
  • Romantic

• My business is to obey when the Lord commands, and this is the duty of all mankind.

  

  Brigham Young
  • Business
  • Obey
  • Lord commands