Russell M. Nelson (Russell Marion Nelson Sr.) Quotes
Focusing on the Lord and everlasting life can help us not only at Christmas, but through all the challenges of mortality.
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I've always enjoyed poor health.
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There's such a pressure on women that we put on ourselves and everyone else puts on us to look unrealistic and everything, but you just can't compare yourself to people in magazines.
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For me, it's actually really hard to write about my real experience. Like to do a Taylor Swift. You know what I mean? It's so brave to actually write about things that happened and things you wanna get off your chest, but I'm not really there yet.
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Sometimes you design a shoe, and you think this one is a winner, but you never know when something will be such a crazy phenomenon.
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I had a mind inquiring enough to question world events, as well as the passion fostered by my background to care, but I lacked the emotional maturity to process these things. That made me ripe for Islamist recruitment. Into this ferment came my recruiter, himself straight out of a London medical college.
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I try to do things I love or care about for some reason.
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Vampires are handy characters, as they can do double duty as monster/villains and the classic, misunderstood romantic hero.
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There is no way to undo what happened in the Zimmerman-Martin encounter, but some good can still come of it: it could lead states to repeal their misguided 'Stand your ground' laws.
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Now and then, there's a fool such as I.
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When I left I got an award for being the latest person in the history of the school. If you got three late marks for being over fifteen minutes late you’d get an after school detention. I got something like 257 marks. And I only lived about ten minutes away.
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I don't want no drummer. I set the tempo.
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In our view any awareness is an increment to consciousness, an added light, a reinforcement of psychic coherence. Its swiftness or instantaneity can hide this growth from us. But there is a growth of being in every instance of awareness. Consciousness is in itself an act, the human act.
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What’s burning?” “Your brain.
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No, no, I didn't know him. He lost his mind around 1917 because of the tragedy of the Armenians.
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Massachusetts is the first state in America to reach full adulthood. The rest of America is still in adolescence.
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It was too late - everything was too late. For years now he had dreamed the world away, basing his decisions upon emotions unstable as water.
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Why is it that the Rev. Jesse Jackson can quote the Bible in support of his pet causes, but conservative ministers and lay people must argue purely on secular grounds for their social and political agenda?... It seems that mixing religion and politics is acceptable as long as the road turns to the left.
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I seemed tranquil but I was extremely agitated, my face hurt with the effort of smiling.
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We must break problems down into small, digestible bits. We must define the concepts that we use and explain what components they consist of. We must tackle small problems.
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My wife and I have a perfect understanding. I don't try to run her life, and I don't try to run mine.
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Focusing on the Lord and everlasting life can help us not only at Christmas, but through all the challenges of mortality.
