Russell M. Nelson (Russell Marion Nelson Sr.) Quotes
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The world is made up of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.
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We want all the information because we do intend to get to the bottom of why some of these insurance policies have lapsed.
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The blind audition process can be nerve-wracking.
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I try changing my surfing, which is the absolute worst thing you can do. Everyone surfs their own way. If I try to surf like someone else I look like a dork.
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I'd rather get a hot dog or a doughnut than write a song.
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I never bought the excuse of not having time to write. If you really want to do it, you're either going to find those hours or eventually decide not to be a writer.
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To grant all a man's wishes is to take away his dreams and ambitions. Life is only worth living if you have something to strive for. To aim at.
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Top tip 4: Somtimes you're lying when you say nothing at all.
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When I look in the mirror, I see a work in progress.
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You spend your whole life trapped inside your body. Everything you know about the world comes to you through your body.
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If Grandma Goldman ever smiled, she must have done it in the bathroom with the door locked. She had been the undisputed head of her own family, ruling with an iron hand and a mouth full of rocks.
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The restaurant business is something that you have to treat like a baby. You have to constantly be there. You can't trust it to anybody else, because no one's going to love it like you do.
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I have a company, and I've got to think about that. I'm trying to do my best there, and that's a much harder task. We recycle as much as possible, and we conserve. But I've always been one to save everything - I even walk up stairs on the very inside or the very outside to not wear out the tread.
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Knowledge is a sacred cow, and my problem will be how we can milk her while keeping clear of her horns.
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It's the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
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The cause doesn't have to be righteous and battle doesn't have to be winnable; but over and over again throughout history, men have chosen to die in battle with their friends rather than to flee on their own and survive.
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Some boast of being friends to government; I am a friend to righteous government, to a government founded upon the principles of reason and justice; but I glory in publicly avowing my eternal enmity to tyranny.
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No other work transcends that of righteous, intentional parenting.
