Russell M. Nelson (Russell Marion Nelson Sr.) Quotes

Rationalization is one of the real obstacles to obedience.

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• It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to play outside the rules. It's dramatic, it's interesting, and I think it's something we can all identify with to a degree.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • People
  • Power
  • Game

• I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Heart
  • Guy
  • Nice

• Controversial means somebody who makes people think. And if you are afraid of people who will be against you, you might as well stay home and do nothing.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • People
  • Home
  • Think

• From a very early age, I made my decisions based on careers that I admire. The one thing that all the actresses I love have in common is that they have diversity in their careers.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Love
  • Age
  • Diversity

• Actors who perhaps are super-confident and have absolute belief in themselves I always admire, because I can't really be like that. Because you never know what's right: what you feel inside versus what is portrayed.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Know
  • Belief
  • Inside

• I've been to the Hall of Fame many times, in grade school and high school. I had field trips to the Hall of Fame and taking tours of it. I just never thought about that one day I possibly might be in it. I think it'd be great.

  

  Patrick Ewing
  • Great
  • School
  • High

• It's funny because if you ever ask anyone in England to try and do a Beatles accent, no one knows what they really sound like. If you ask anyone in America, they would try and give it a go. English people just know their songs.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • People
  • America
  • Funny

• We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.

  

  B. B. King
  • Yourself
  • Doing
  • Be Yourself

• Despereaux marveled at his own bravery. He admired his own defiance. And then, reader, he fainted. :(

  

  Kate DiCamillo

• Why are the architects of the family-values agenda so eager to punish into the next generation? What is being served by seeking, quite literally, a tooth for a tooth?

  

  Ayelet Waldman
  • Family
  • Why

• In the beginning, there is just universe. There is no us. There is just God in His or Her universe. Then we separate God from the universe until we are trapped in it, in the universe we have created.

  

  Alan Moore
  • God
  • Universe
  • Beginning

• You can talk about teamwork on a baseball team, but I'll tell you, it takes teamwork when you have 2,900 men stationed on the U.S.S. Alabama in the South Pacific.

  

  Bob Feller
  • Men
  • Team
  • Baseball

• Life does throw some hard stuff at you as you get older, much harder. But you are more able to deal with things.

  

  Andrea Corr
  • Life

• So if you're on the motorcycle, on the track you're not thinking at all about what's happening next week or tomorrow or anything. You're literally thinking about the turn you're setting up and there's something about that I find very cathartic and meditative.

  

  Dax Shepard
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Motorcycle

• Did I invent anything? I don't think so, not really. But if I've helped make history fun... then my work here is done.

  

  Lauren Willig
  • Work
  • Done
  • History

• Common sense tells us that this explosion of media sources should eliminate any concern over a lack of diversity of views in the marketplace and competition.

  

  Fred Upton
  • Competition
  • Diversity

• I like to say, 'Chop suey's the biggest culinary joke that one culture has ever played on another,' because chop suey, if you translate into Chinese, means 'tsap sui,' which, if you translate back, means 'odds and ends.'

  

  Jennifer 8. Lee
  • Culture
  • Chinese

• We must boycott fur coats as well as all the accessories.

  

  Brigitte Bardot

• I write the story as it comes to me - YA is my natural voice, not a conscious choice.

  

  Marie Lu

• I like actors - such as Margaret Rutherford and Peter Lorre - who aren't afraid to over-act like real people. When I take a job, I can always come up with ten different ways of doing the part. But I'll always choose the flashiest one. You've got to dress the window a bit.

  

  Denholm Elliott
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• Much historical fiction that centers on real people has always been deficient in information, lacking in craft and empty in affect.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Real
  • Information
  • Fiction

• Rationalization is one of the real obstacles to obedience.

  

  Russell M. Nelson
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