Russell M. Nelson (Russell Marion Nelson Sr.) Quotes
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Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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I was passionate about soccer. I still am. Odd, though - playing soccer always made me much more anxious than playing tennis. On soccer days, I'd be out of bed by 6 in the morning, all nervous. But I was always calm when it was time for a tennis match. I still don't know why.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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Venus favors the bold.
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It's interesting, because I named my first album after my dad because I wanted to find him. My second album was named after my mom because I felt like I learned all my creative talents I learned from her. All the survival stuff, too. And then the next album is 'Maya,' which is not my real name. It's fake.
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To read too many books is harmful.
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I've never been to jail. I've never been arrested. I've never been locked up.
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I don't have any regrets. I consider myself really privileged to belong to medicine and do what I do. I would do it all again.
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The ever-renewed instances of beauty and fairness passing over the faces of the beings in the universe show that they are shadows of the manifestations of an Eternal Beauteous One.
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My favorite Oscar story was a year my brother had been nominated, my whole family went.
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It just so happens that my oldest and best friend is Bob James, the Grammy-winning great jazz pianist!
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I learned that lack of budget can be overcome by fan passion if you can get your content to the people who like what you do.
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A lot of people glorify and romanticize the idea of being an early bloomer: finding success very early and being a child star. But it can also be quite dangerous.
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What I look for in a script is the plot point and whether they're strong, obviously, or not, whether the characters are rich or not, and if I can do justice to the character or not. Some movies you look at and the script is so bad that no one can do anything with the script.
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Our Soviet writer must be guided in his world only by the need of the people, useful for the society.
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Men are run ragged by female sexuality all their lives. From the beginning of his life to the end, no man ever fully commands any woman. It's an illusion. Men are pussy-whipped. And they know it. That's what the strip clubs are about; not woman as victim, not woman as slave, but woman as goddess.
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All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.
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Nobody will ever agree with everything everyone says, especially once an issue or speaker becomes politically charged. But as tolerant and civilized Americans, we should at least have the decency to hear them out.
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Lose your mind and come to your senses.
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Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.
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Virtually every magazine, newspaper, TV station and cable channel is owned by a big corporation, and they've squashed stories that they don't want the public to know about.
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The Lord can only teach an inquiring mind.
