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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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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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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Look, maybe I'm just not good at multi-tasking and am, therefore, jealous of those of you who can get in a workout while yammering on your cell phone, but for the love of all that is good and pure, shut your yap!
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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.
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Seeking but not finding the house builder I travelled through life after life. How painful is repeated birth! House-builders, you have now been seen. You will not build the house again.
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I have the strange ability to shut things out.
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I get scared easily, so I'm not one for just sitting down with a bowl of popcorn and watching horror stories. But, I mean, I'm learning more. Maybe one day I'd like to be able to watch them.
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I feel like regardless of whether or not I win this award or I win that award or I don't win this award - I'm still Sam at the end of the day. And that's what defines me.
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Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them.
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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.
