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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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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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 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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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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Being must be felt. It can't be thought.
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Since only an individual man can possess rights, the expression 'individual rights' is a redundancy (which one has to use for purposes of clarification in today’s intellectual chaos). But the expression 'collective rights' is a contradiction in terms.
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Every man and every woman is a star.
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Manus haec inimica tyrannisEnse petit placidam sub libertate quietem.
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I don't need gold in heaven, I gotta have it now.
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About the only thing that I have - or had, because it's failing me lately - is my memory. I had a really good memory. I was always terribly protective of that fact.
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Diligence, hard work, foresight, entrepreneurship and God's blessing.
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
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The only duration of family life that satisfies the loftiest longings of the human soul is forever.
