Quentin L. Cook Quotes
God’s plan provides a way for family relationships to extend beyond the grave. We can return to the presence of God, eternally united with our families.
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The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.
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Acting is in your soul.
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Through the years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.
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The older I get, the more I realize the importance of maintaining an even temperament - not getting too emotional, focusing on the task at hand. You don't want to make a business deal based on your emotions.
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Botox not only helps with wrinkles, it actually makes you feel more relaxed as frowning causes tension.
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Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
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I don't usually wear a lot of makeup because I tend to like a natural look.
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Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.
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I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
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For a while, I became an atheist; now that I'm grown up, though, I'm not hard-edged enough to be an atheist. Even though I live with a flaming atheist, I love going to temple. I love all the rituals.
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The greatest power is not money power, but political power.
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Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.
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In the film industry, you are fictitious, just like the characters you play. It has a lot do with a perception about you, and not necessarily you. You are successful because people like that image of you on screen.
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We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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Private equity helps produce strong companies, promotes innovation and spurs job growth.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.
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I had kind of a mean piano teacher. I went to Catholic school, so it was like the typical thing you would imagine - a little kid with a white-haired teacher frowning at the fact that I didn't practice.
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Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that's not me.
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Those then who know not wisdom and virtue, and are always busy with gluttony and sensuality, go down and up again as far as the mean; and in this region they move at random throughout life, but they never pass into the true upper world; thither they neither look, nor do they ever find their way, neither are they truly filled with true being, nor do they ever taste of pure and abiding pleasure.
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God's advice trumps Oprah's every time.
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God gets me into a relationship with Himself whereby I understand His call, then I do things out of sheer love for Him on my own account. To serve God is the deliberate love-gift of a nature that has heard the call of God.
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God’s plan provides a way for family relationships to extend beyond the grave. We can return to the presence of God, eternally united with our families.
