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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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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I always said that you can use the same vehicle although the driver will change, or the same vehicle to go for the race. It's a different driver, this is exactly what's happening to the cabinet.
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There are several peculiarities that I share with children which, like having no front teeth, are perhaps more acceptable in the very young, but which, for better or worse, seem to be a part of my makeup.
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I just love playing so much, competing so much. You're able to put your losses behind you. One of the greatest attributes a decathlete can have is the ability to forget... to look ahead, not behind.
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Every bad thing that's happened to me has defined me, has shaped, has moulded me.
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Our ability to perceive the world around us seems so effortless that we tend to take it for granted.
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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.
