Joseph B. Wirthlin Quotes
When we are baptized and confirmed, when brethren are ordained to the priesthood, when we go to the temple and receive our endowment, when we enter into the new and everlasting covenant of eternal marriage - in all these sacred ordinances, we make solemn commitments to keep God's commandments.
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Oh wow, you know what's wrong with all these families on TV? All these kids say stuff no kid would say. Stuff grown-ups want them to say. Man, I'd make a really realistic family. Where kids get spankings. On TV parents say, 'Oh, you shouldn't do that ever again. Now you can have ice cream.' Forget it.
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We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady.
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I believe that leaders should inspire you to be more like them.
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In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks.
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My parents were divorced by the time I was even conscious - like, I don't remember them ever being together.
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I'm not usually attracted to big-budget American films.
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I would argue that you're only going to get the conservatives, particularly a Republican House, to pass immigration reform if we, as conservatives, are reassured that the border is controlled and that we get to vote on whether the border is controlled.
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The first calculators tended to sell for $400 or $500. Today, you can get a pretty good one for 4 or $5.
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My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.
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Junooniyat for love but not necessarily from the romantic perspective. For me, that is for family, that is for my work. For me, both these things are very important, so there is junoon for people I love, which is my family, and my work, which I worship.
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If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.
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I've been asked to interview for many managing jobs, and I never said yes because I was never serious about it, and I thought it would be wrong to go through that process.
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That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.
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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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The peak of a career can only last so long. You go up and you try to maintain it. But, it can only last so long and then you're going to go down.
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Sometimes my colleagues joke and call me Hannah.
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Can the 'word' be pinned down to either one period or one church? All churches are, of course, only more or less unsuccessful attempts to represent the unseen to the mind.
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Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane.
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Jesus knew - knew - that we're carrying the Kingdom of Heaven around with us, inside, where we're all too goddam stupid and sentimental and unimaginative to look? You have to be a son of God to know that kind of stuff.
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I've always been attracted to multicultural music. It's where the world is going.
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As far as the execution is concerned ... the most frequent and most serious mistake is to follow the music instead of preceding it.
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When we are baptized and confirmed, when brethren are ordained to the priesthood, when we go to the temple and receive our endowment, when we enter into the new and everlasting covenant of eternal marriage - in all these sacred ordinances, we make solemn commitments to keep God's commandments.
