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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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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Ambedkar was the first person to attain escape velocity and run away to US.
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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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Fashion doesn't look good only on models; it can look good on different people of different ages and different body shapes.
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We as preachers/teachers/pastors have to figure out things to do in order to garner the attention of individuals and also keep them at our churches by making sure that we reinvent ourselves on a consistent basis.
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Truly I never thought of myself as writing legal thrillers, and I still don't think I do. I write stories about women.
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'The Office' is an amazing show. So is 'Extras.'
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You should live hoping you are going to offend people, because then you're doing something.
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One of the reasons I admire David Lindsay-Abaire's work is that he, like the Greeks I've spent so much of my professional life contemplating, is not afraid of taking on the big stuff - huge, human, moral issues - what do we owe to those we love?
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He upbraided Macro, in no obscure and indirect terms, 'with forsaking the setting sun and turning to the rising'.
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A pig has a plow on the end of its nose because it does meaningful work with it. It is built to dig and create soil disturbance, something it can't do in a concentrated feeding environment. The omnivore has historically been a salvage operation for food scraps around the homestead.
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If my life is of no value to my friends it is of none to myself.
