Joseph Smith, Jr. Quotes
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I don't do nostalgia. It just doesn't occur to me. I'm living in the moment, and I don't have that gene.
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If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot.
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I've learned that I get blocked when my subconscious mind is telling me that I've taken the work in a wrong direction, and that once I start listening to what my subconscious is trying to tell me, I can work out the problem and get moving again.
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I love musicals; I love the ballet, opera, the circus. It's all performance to me.
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When I was younger, I had a much better connection between words and music. Somewhere along the way, I had kind of an aspiration to disconnect them, to just kind of go into a totally musical world.
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My brain doesn't like to be quiet.
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Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.
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Once I am in the square circle, I am in my home.
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Let us labor to add all needful guarantees for the more perfect security of free thought, free speech, and free press, pure morals, unfettered religious sentiments, and of equal rights and privileges to all men, irrespective of nationality, color, or religion.
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'Lieutenant Crosshaw says you are a special case!' bellowed Helve. 'I do not like special cases! Special cases do not make good soldiers! Special cases do not help other recruits become good soldiers! Therefore, you will not be a special case! You understand me!' 'I think so-' 'Shut up! That was not a question!'
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To be an outstanding musician, you have to be very attentive to the smallest detail and willing to have infinite patience in the pursuit of your ideal.
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I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.
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Madam, I have come from a country where people are hanged if they talk.
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The excitement of stepping onto a stage - there's nothing quite like it.
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You could be the most beautiful girl, but if you're stuck up, that doesn't do it for me.
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A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.
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I'm a horrible drawer. I have no artistic ability in my hands.
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I'm sorry, but I can't make a movie with the blonde from 'ER' who is starring in every single bad romantic comedy.
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Carrying The Beatles' or the Sixties' dream around all your life is like carrying the Second World War and Glenn Miller around. That's not to say you can't enjoy Glenn Miller or The Beatles, but to live in that dream is the twilight zone. It's not living now. It's an illusion.
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Yoga takes us to an unconditioned freedom, because yoga sees even good habits as a form of conditioning or limitation.
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I didn't want to be pigeonholed as an artist. I wanted to be able to have other stories to tell.
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'But,' I Dmitri Karamazov asked, 'how will man be after that? Without God and the future life? It means everything is permitted now, one can do anything?' 'Didn't you know?' he said. And he laughed. 'Everything is permitted to the intelligent man,' he said.
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Let’s fucking kill him! Let’s go in. Let’s kill the fucking lot of them.
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Truth is Mormonism. God is the author of it.
