Heber J. Grant Quotes
President Heber J. Grant often quoted the following statement, which is sometimes attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson: “That which we persist in doing becomes easier for us to do-not that the nature of the thing is changed, but that our power to do is increased.
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You know, something happened to me when I became 70. I started to feel a tremendous love for the human race, and life and this planet, the universe, the whole shebang.
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I've struggled with depression before. For me, music was always a very positive way to will myself out of that situation.
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I'm an actress, and that's my work and my passion.
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I was 19, and I thought I should settle down and get a real job, and what was I doing living this dream world?
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It's an interesting but useless bit of information that every single character in 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit' wears a wig, and many of them wears a prosthetic - false ears, feet, hands. In my case, nose.
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As an actress, I value and rely on peaceful self-expression, not only in my daily life, but also in my professional work. This is particularly true, as my commitment to the promotion of human rights is an integral part of my calling as an artist.
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My music has shaken hands with the world somehow - it's a beautiful disease, and I'm glad I got it.
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I watched the Bush administration overreact to the Clinton administration, who believed they did too much nation building, sustaining other countries, and that's why we never put the commitment on Afghanistan and Iraq that should have been in there under their policy leadership.
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The duty of the words is to say just as much as the music has left unsaid and no more.
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Bees are not as busy as we think they are. They jest can't buzz any slower.
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In any country, if you don't have countervailing institutions, the power of any one president is problematic for democratic development.
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Art thou angry with him whose arm-pits stink? art thou angry with him whose mouth smells foul? What good will this anger do thee?
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The method of 'postulating' what we want has many advantages; they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil.
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There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.
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I would not be opposed to devising a new system of pensions, in which one part was based on collective provision, but which also gave incentives for people to take out an additional, personal plan.
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I think that the more comfortable and the more you rehearse - granted, I don't like to take the air out of a tire; there is a fine line - but I think the freer you are with your dialogue, for example, the more open you are to a good idea walking up to you.
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What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.
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I've never liked the publishing world's determination to pigeonhole every writer into a genre.
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Maybe the heart did change shape. And not just when it loved. When it was hurt. When it was angry. When it hated. When it remembered. When it yearned. When it mourned.
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When I can’t stand. Up in this cage I’m not regretting.
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In the great Declaration of our principles, it didn't say that all men are created equal 'if you so choose.' It said that all are created equal by the power and the will of God, and that we must respect their rights as we respect that will.
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Roxanne Quimby wanted money and power, and I was just a pillar on the way to that success.
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The more cynical you become, the better off you'll be.
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President Heber J. Grant often quoted the following statement, which is sometimes attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson: “That which we persist in doing becomes easier for us to do-not that the nature of the thing is changed, but that our power to do is increased.
