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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If a mind is just a few pounds of blood, urea, and electricity, how does it manage to contemplate itself, worry about its soul, do time-and-motion studies, admire the shy hooves of a goat, know that it will die, enjoy all the grand and lesser mayhems of the heart ?
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Sometimes you have to rest in certain games, but I want to play in every game.
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Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
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My brother works for a forestry commission. He writes only in green ink to persuade his bossess to make it a standard ecological colour for all forestry business. I asked him what colour ink he would use if he gave up eating whale meat and worked for a whaling company. He said whales were colour blind.
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Everything in life has some good in it. And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more--it's sad, but that's the truth.
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The only duration of family life that satisfies the loftiest longings of the human soul is forever.
