Heber J. Grant Quotes
If we are striving, if we are working, if we are trying, to the best of our ability, to improve day by day, then we are in the line of our duty.
Quotes to Explore
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The history of American women is about the fight for freedom, but it's less a war against oppressive men than a struggle to straighten out the perpetually mixed message about women's role that was accepted by almost everybody of both genders.
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The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.
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I had no desire to crash a man's world.
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People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!
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Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.
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He who can believe himself well, will be well.
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Note to self: Never ride a motorcycle in stilettos and a miniskirt.
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Roadrunner wanted to make Born in the Flood the next Nickelback, but I didn't want to be that. I didn't want to be a huge rock star playing songs I didn't like. I didn't want to be stuck playing 'Anthem,' the song everybody liked but I didn't want to put on the record, for the next five years.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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I had a stalker break into my house a couple times. They didn't leave any fingerprints or take anything - I was being followed.
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I've come to feel that if I can't make something happen in under an hour and a half, it's not going to happen in a compelling way in a three-hour play.
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As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
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If I could go back I might change Geronimo a bit. If I do, it will be made a longer version.
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I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.
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The only danger about websites, you know, is people who remember something you did or said thirty or forty years ago, and bring it up against you, so you're going for a job and you don't get it.
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Google never knew how successful key words would be. Facebook didn't know how successful Zynga would be.
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Many years ago... many, many years ago, I brought up a boy, and I said to him, 'Son, if you ever become a writer, try to write a good part for your old man sometime.' Well, by cracky, that's what he did!
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Perhaps 10 percent of patients who are prescribed antidepressants are really benefiting from the drugs' active ingredients.
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I never wanted to be a public intellectual or a talking head.
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If you're always worried about being on your phone, then you really are missing out on everything that's happening in front of you.
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Writing about 2,000 words in three hours every morning, 'Casino Royale' dutifully produced itself. I wrote nothing and made no corrections until the book was finished. If I had looked back at what I had written the day before I might have despaired.
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Writing has never been that simple for me.
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All about us were people. Perhaps a hundred. Men. Experience had taught me that humans were cruelest when segregated by sex, and the cold feeling in the pit of my stomach became led. What had I let myself in for?
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If we are striving, if we are working, if we are trying, to the best of our ability, to improve day by day, then we are in the line of our duty.
