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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Musical theater is one of my passions.
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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 knew I was Chinese, but growing up, it never occurred to me that that had any particular implication or that it should differentiate me in any way. I thought it was a minor detail, like having red hair.
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I'd like a telescope, but I probably wouldn't look at the stars that often. I'd definitely be looking into people's flats most of the time.
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I would be on the 'anti-reality' show. I can't stand reality TV. I can tell you one that I absolutely would not be on, and that's 'Dancing With the Stars.' If you ever see me on that show, just please understand my family is starving to death, and things are really bad in the Church household.
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She was made up of more, too. She was the books she read in the library. She was the flower in the brown bowl. Part of her life was made from the tree growing rankly in the yard. She was the bitter quarrels she had with her brother whom she loved dearly. She was Katie's secret, despairing weeping. She was the shame of her father stumbling home drunk. She was all of these things and of something more...It was what God or whatever is His equivalent puts into each soul that is given life - the one different thing such as that which makes no two fingerprints on the face of the earth alike.
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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.
