Russell M. Nelson (Russell Marion Nelson Sr.) Quotes
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I would see anything by Antony Gormley.
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The biggest thrill in the world is entertaining the public, there is no bigger thrill than that.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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If it is true that we have a personal relationship with God, then that's enough for me.
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Education never quite gets the attention it deserves in presidential campaigns, but monster flip-flops surely do.
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When I was in the ring at the Olympics, it was my father's words that I was hearing, not the coaches'. 'I never listened to what the coaches said. I would call my father and he would give me advice from prison.
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'Outlander' is progressive in the way it looks at women.
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At the moment I am a little bit politician, yes. I think that could be my next step. It is not because I want power, it is because of what I think I could do for the people.
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I love to act, but business is more interesting because it's more competitive and involves more people. There's more 'now' mentality and energy. Intellectually, it's a lot more interesting.
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The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.
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I needed something to challenge myself a little more. I found fighting, and it completely fit my personality.
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You learn so much from competition you gain confidence every time you have to step up and perform.
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You come to me and it's my job to make you look the best you can look. From an image point of view, would I prefer to dress Jude Law instead of Rolf Harris? Of course. But it's my job to make them both look great.
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The great thing for me, now, is that writing has become more and more interesting. Not just as a craft but as a way into things that are not described. It's a thing of discovering. That's when writing is really working. You're on the trail of something, and you don't quite know what it is.
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The effects of human rights education can be dramatic in awakening people to the value and power of their own lives, as shown in the following stories.
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Spring is here my friends and a new chapter begins.
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I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard, than in the tombs of the Capulets.
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The seething racial resentment in the Third World against the West — decades after independence and trillions in foreign aid — should cause second thoughts about opening our borders to mass immigration from that world. Not everyone coming here brings in his heart the passionate attachment to America we attribute to the peoples of Ellis Island.
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Chicago is the only major city in the country where you can easily buy your way out of a murder rap.
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At any moment the decision you make can change the course of your life forever.
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Writers tend to write stories as a kind of holiday between novels, or as preliminary steps towards a novel. Stories just don't often make up a writer's main body of work, and that's not because they don't see the market for it.
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The young should not think of themselves as immature and the elderly need not view themselves as feeble. Our minds control our bodies. Have no age, transcend both past and future, and enter into naka-ima-the "eternal present".
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Don't explain why it works; explain how you use it.
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Each day is a day of decision, and our decisions determine our destiny.
