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.
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But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.
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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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With instrumental music, it is traditionally hard to get exposure.
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Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States - old as well as new - North as well as South.
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Know what suits you. Now I understand proportion and recognise the shapes that look good on my figure.
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I went out of my way to try not to be an artist, because I thought I would end up leading a miserable, obscure life. I tried to escape it for as long as I could, until I had to admit at 25 that that was my path.
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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.
