Russell M. Nelson (Russell Marion Nelson Sr.) Quotes
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All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage.
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Today I know that there is still work to be done, but along the way my I am achieving my dreams.
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That's what I've wanted to do my whole life, just act. When I was younger, I loved to entertain people. I always used to make up dance routines, do little plays. I love to perform, basically.
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Everyone needs something they're good at. You want your kids to be passionate and figure out something they're good at.
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My retiring days are behind me – they're going to have to throw me out now.
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Size has nothing to do with literature. All legs are long enough to touch the ground, and all books are big enough to fill their covers.
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It was around the summer of 1982 when the drug problem really impacted. It became a lifestyle rather than a recreation. When you start lying and stealing, you cannot con yourself you're in control any more.
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I think every country has to recognize its competitive advantage and liberate its strengths to be a partner in global trade, and that's the only way you can survive and succeed.
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As supportive as my hometown is, in my high school, there are people who would probably walk up to me and punch me in the face. There's a select few that will never like me. They don't like what I stand for. They don't like somebody who stands for being sober, who stands for anything happy. They're going to be negative no matter what.
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Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get.
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It was instilled in me that the money I was given was not to be lost or spent on any other purpose.
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In my view, you can't go to the future if you haven't come from the past.
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Well, in order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times.
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I've always been able to sense the relationship between two people based on how one person says the other's name!
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I'm very picky, and I'm never 100% happy with the work I do; I hate watching myself and hearing my voice.
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I just was mesmerized by all of this life everywhere I looked. And so I wanted to be a marine biologist.
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On the first day of school, my father told me I'd be the most popular girl and everyone would love me and want to be my friend. It wasn't so, but it gave me an enormous amount of confidence.
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'As with all dwellings,' she said, 'of mortals and immortals both, it is the living that makes a house-not the doors, not the walls.'
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Beware of addictive medicines. Everything in moderation. This applies particularly to the Internet and your sofa. The physical world is ultimately the source of all inspiration. Which is to say, if all else fails: take a bike ride.
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Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration.
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I'm hugely intrinsically motivated and have always believed that I'm fueled and motivated by learning.
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I've been water-boarded, and I speak from experience, and it's torture.
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American films are terribly popular all over the world and American movie stars are terribly important. I don't know why.
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Act by inspiration, motivated by love.
