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

It is important for you to know who you are and who you may become. It is more important than what you do, even as vital as your work is and will be.

Russell M. Nelson

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• I am happy that I have entertained people and made them happy.

  

  Aamir Khan
  • People
  • Happy
  • Entertained

• People still say to me, 'What, you still live in Mexico?' I don't have to go to the United States simply to find work, and I don't have to stop what I'm doing. I mean, which Hollywood film beats 'The Motorcycle Diaries?'

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • People
  • Work
  • Live

• I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Up
  • Art
  • Soul

• Who can love to walk in the dark? But providence doth often so dispose.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • Love
  • Dark
  • Walk

• I want to re-mythologize 'The Green Hornet' in a contemporary context, with an emphasis on story and character, while at the same time incorporating themes that speak to my heart.

  

  Gavin O'Connor
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Character

• I hate government. I hate power. I think that man's existence, insofar as he achieves anything, is to resist power, to minimize power, to devise systems of society in which power is the least exerted.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Power
  • Society
  • Hate

• The Internet is the best thing that could have happened to China.

  

  Ai Weiwei

• Like any child, I slid into myself perfectly fitted, as a diver meets her reflection in a pool. Her fingertips enter the fingertips on the water, her wrists slide up her arms. The diver wraps herself in her reflection wholly, sealing it at the toes, and wears it as she climbs rising from the pool, and ever after.

  

  Annie Dillard
  • Up
  • She
  • Water

• At the door of every happy person there should be a man with a hammer whose knock would serve as a constant reminder of the existence of unfortunate people.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • People
  • Happy
  • Door

• I'm grateful I know what it's like to be unemployed for long periods of time.

  

  Charlie Cox
  • Time
  • Long

• The Internet offers the ability for people to consume poison and radicalize entirely in private, either through a device they're holding in their hands or inside their house.

  

  James Comey
  • People
  • House

• What matters is that there is somewhere for those who are troubled, threatened or afraid to turn to in their darkest hour. What matters is that there are those who are willing and able to use the law as an instrument of inclusion, of protection, and of freedom.

  

  Loretta Lynch
  • Freedom
  • Law

• Maybe the real subject of every interview is how you really can't learn much of anything about anyone from an interview.

  

  Brin-Jonathan Butler
  • Real

• If Republicans truly are dedicated to the sanctity of life, they should be the first ones on the front lines trying to get policies for the uninsured.

  

  Kurt Eichenwald
  • Life
  • Trying

• With the exception of 'Descent,' that was a very conscious thing to make an action or horror movie that was an all-female cast because I hadn't seen anything like that before.

  

  Neil Marshall
  • Movie
  • Action

• So the animal finally performs in that situation only the fitting act.

  

  Edward Thorndike
  • Animal

• I'm a huge cinemaphile. My interest in filmmaking came out of experimenting with different genres, and I wanted to go back to working in a way that was more personal, which, for me, was artwork. Commercials and films are more collaborative.

  

  Marco Brambilla
  • Different

• Not all series books are sagas. Some are shaped more like beads on a string, separate episodes held together by a set of characters, who may or may not grow and change as the series continues.

  

  Katharine Kerr
  • May
  • Together

• Setting shouldn't just consist of describing nature or a landscape, or of saying where something takes place. It is the world of specific people. It's not enough for it to feel vivid or credible; it should feel necessary.

  

  Kaui Hart Hemmings
  • People
  • World
  • Nature

• I've always been a loner.

  

  Kevin Gates
  • Loner

• The human race has been telling stories since it began.

  

  Doris Lessing

• But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you maintain your copyright.

  

  Beth Henley

• My name is Cammie!” I didn’t think about all the people I could have woken, all the alarms that might have gone off. I just snapped, “How did you know about Boston? Why are you working with Mr. Solomon now? Are you my friend or are you my enemy, Zach? Or, wait, let me guess, you can’t tell me.

  

  Ally Carter
  • Friend
  • Enemy
  • Name

• It is important for you to know who you are and who you may become. It is more important than what you do, even as vital as your work is and will be.

  

  Russell M. Nelson