Joseph Smith, Jr. Quotes
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My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint.
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My life has been forged by middle class values: faith, hard work, deep respect for America and all that she stands for.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.
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I've always had a passion for music, but I never saw me as a musician for a living. I never thought that I could make a living. It never dawned on me.
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I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.
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When I was a kid, I thought it was tough.
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The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
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I don't think people cry reading 'Midnight's Children,' but a lot of people seem to cry watching the movie.
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American democracy in the past has always been known for its large middle class and its relatively few very wealthy people and very few very poor people, but that is gone to today and the middle class is shrinking.
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What I love about 'Midnight Train' is that it's a song about a journey, but the music actually takes you on that journey. It feels like you're moving through the whole song.
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The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can.
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We are all the same person trying to shake hands with our self.
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There are moments in history when brooding tragedy and its dark shadows can be lightened by recalling great moments of the past.
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Ambedkar was the first person to attain escape velocity and run away to US.
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When the wise plant developer goes into his garden or orchard... his eyes turn always first and foremost to the leaves...
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This, Hastings, will be my last case. It will be, too, my most interesting case - and my most interesting criminal.
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When we started Aventura, I think a lot of - the reason why we became so successful besides, you know, doing good music, was also the fact that it was unique and different and never done.
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When I started writing music on the guitar, it started off very folky because of my limited ability to play. It was slow, soft melodies. But then, as I got better on the guitar, I started exploring different sounds.
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La femme?sait que quand on la regarde on ne la distingue pas de son apparence: elle est juge e, respecte e, de sire e a' travers sa toilette. Woman?knows that when she is looked at she is not considered apart from her appearance: she is judged, respected, desired, by and through her toilette.
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I didn't resolve the questions... and I find that entertaining. And if my life were to end tomorrow, it would be fulfilled in that manner. I would say, 'The questions have been terrific.
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I'm fascinated by what people will do to each other. Actually, I'm sort of interested in the gory details of life.
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I've been through this fame thing before, when the band was big in '80, '81.
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If my life is of no value to my friends it is of none to myself.