Joseph Smith, Jr. Quotes

The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.

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• At first, before you meet her, you're like, 'I'm gonna meet Angelina Jolie! I'm talking to Angelina Jolie!' And then, within a matter of five minutes, you're like, 'Oh, I'm just talking to my director,' and it's just back to work. She really is all about the work. She's so surprisingly down-to-earth.

  

  Finn Wittrock
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  • She
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• Indeed, our British friends have decided to leave us - which is very sad for all of us - but life goes on, and the European Union as well goes on.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Sad

• I was very good in math and physics. In the Soviet time, we had a lot of Olympic-style competitions for different disciplines: I was always winning in my region.

  

  Oleg Deripaska
  • Time
  • Good
  • Different

• But I'm not objective when I'm acting.

  

  Laura Innes
  • Acting
  • Objective

• I never expected my writing to become as popular as it did.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Writing
  • Never
  • Popular

• I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Up
  • Women
  • Mother

• From day one, I got addicted to being on stage and getting the applause and laughter.

  

  Zac Efron
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  • Applause

• Living in the U.K., there is no way to know whether anyone in India likes my music, but I was surprised to see people singing along while I performed in Pune.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • People
  • Music
  • Singing

• I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the unloving, say life should be lovely. I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness.

  

  Vachel Lindsay
  • Life
  • Justice
  • Kindness

• I kind of feel, in a way, all of us will forever be asking those questions of ourselves: Who am I and how do I fit in in the world and what is all this about? Because those aren't really... there are no answers to those questions, in a sense.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • World
  • Kind
  • Forever

• My style is definitely not ladylike - frills and bows kinda scare me - but I like the military look because I love that olive green khaki color.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Style
  • Like
  • Color

• When I was younger in the theater, I didn't really feel like I got much recognition from the powers that be. I got a lot of small roles - I never got the standout roles.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Small
  • Feel
  • Recognition

• I wish I had stayed and finished my career here in New York.

  

  Patrick Ewing
  • Career
  • Wish
  • New

• My mother was born in Wilmington, Delaware. She's a U.S. citizen, so I'm a U.S. citizen.

  

  Ted Cruz
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• In the beginning, before the creation of Heaven and Earth, God made the angels; free intelligences and free wills; out of His love He made them, that they might be eternally happy. And that their happiness might be complete, He gave them the perfection of a created nature; that is, He gave them freedom.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • God
  • Happy
  • Freedom

• Failing to plan is planning to fail. Plan Each Day, Each Week, Each Semester. You can always change your plan, but only once you have one!

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Planning

• Why it is that of all the billions and billions of strange objects in the Cosmos - novas, quasars, pulsars, black holes - you are beyond doubt the strangest?

  

  Walker Percy
  • Why
  • Black
  • Doubt

• I said ... on Tuesday we are not saying anything on or off the record. That remains the position.

  

  Alan Young
  • Record
  • Position
  • Tuesday

• A richly detailed, poignant, and utterly fascinating look into another culture and how it is cross-pollinated by our own. It brings to mind the work of Ha Jin in its power and revelation of the new.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Power

• I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of lifes wisdom.

  

  Wislawa Szymborska
  • Wisdom
  • Sympathy

• It would be too much for me to deal with to be sitting up there next to God, Bon Scott, Sid Vicious, and Jimi Hendrix, and hear somebody read my obituary from below: NIKKI SIXX DIED TODAY...FUCKING GOLFING.

  

  Nikki Sixx Mötley Crüe
  • God
  • Obituary
  • Golfing

• Our world is increasingly interdependent, but I wonder if we truly understand that our interdependent human community has to be compassionate; compassionate in our choice of goals, compassionate in our means of cooperation and our pursuit of these goals.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • World
  • Community
  • Mean

• The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.

  

  Joseph Smith, Jr.
  • God
  • Wisdom
  • Teaching