Russell M. Nelson (Russell Marion Nelson Sr.) Quotes
The only duration of family life that satisfies the loftiest longings of the human soul is forever.
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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
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I had no choice in the decision to make myself available. I was not always doing things I wanted to do.
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We have guidance counselors that have caseloads of 500 to 600 children. We don't have enough to help the children.
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It's unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.
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I'm not somebody who gets teared up or anything, but I still look up at the stars, and it gives me hope, and it gives me energy. I think one of the things that we have to think about it is, we are all a part of this universe.
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I don't understand why people really get upset about something that doesn't affect them at all.
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I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
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Showbiz can be cruel.
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I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director.
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My wife Martha used to call me Ol' Lemon Face because of my facial contortions when I play Lucille. I squeeze my eyes and open my mouth, raise my eyebrows, cock my head and God knows what else. I look like I'm in torture, when in truth, I'm in ecstasy. I don't do it for show. Every fiber of my being is tingling.
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If you say John Smith is the greatest wrestler in Oklahoma history, now that's big.
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To marry the Irish is to look for poverty.
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I am not saying one is better than the other. I enjoy both. But Hollywood is far more organised than Bollywood.
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If you become a teacher, by your pupils you'll be taught.
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There is another form of selection best illustrated by the automatic telephone exchange. You dial a number and the machine selects and connects just one of a million possible stations. It does not run over them all. It pays attention only to a class given by a first digit, and so on; and thus proceeds rapidly and almost unerringly to the selected station.
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Mirroring is simply repeating what someone just said. It creates more reception from the other side, it focuses attention, and it gives them an opportunity to dial in more with you and you to dial in more with them. It causes an almost completely unconscious response for the person to want to go on.
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No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.
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No one wants to live forever if it means becoming increasingly decrepit.
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The only duration of family life that satisfies the loftiest longings of the human soul is forever.
