Quentin L. Cook Quotes
This feeling of accountability, which is encompassed by the first great commandment to love God, has been described by some as 'obedience to the unenforceable.' [John Fletcher Moulton.] We try to do what is right because we love and want to please our Father in Heaven, not because someone is forcing us to obey.
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In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.
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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
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A lot of the players that I play with who are Canadian, they call me Patty. Before then, I never heard it. I didn't mind Patty.
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I don't have any nicknames.
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Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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Good design should be honest.
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I am inspired by anything beautiful. Sometime it's a pair of eyes or flowing gorgeous hair, other times it's the sky or a sunset. I've been inspired by supple skin or the texture of a soft shirt.
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When I had no money, I would find out which friend had work and money at that point in time and would go and stay with him for a week. All of us theatre guys did that.
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I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.
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We didn't want our kids raised in a place plagued by smog and plastic surgery.
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As long as there is a mathematical chance, we have to keep on going.
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I already have a lot of experience, but the best is yet to come.
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It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery.
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How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
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I've never been one for crushing on famous people.
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No hero is mortal till he dies.
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Honesty and loyalty are key. If two people can be honest with each other about everything, that's probably the biggest key to success.
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The markets where we've got real good presence are the older, more mature markets like Australia, and Western Europe - where we've only got 6,000 stores, compared to the US with 13,000.
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We don’t aspire to genetic unity, no matter what your propagandists think. The pursuit of optima leads only to local minima. We honour our errors. We actively seek persistent disequilibrium.
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There may well be a time for military action.
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I cannot imagine my hometown without forests, and I cannot imagine the earth turned into a desert.
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The exposure I have had to beautiful materials across the world, from Japan to Italy, enables me to pull design ideas together. This, combined with years of historical research, has created a great fountain of ideas for me.
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This feeling of accountability, which is encompassed by the first great commandment to love God, has been described by some as 'obedience to the unenforceable.' [John Fletcher Moulton.] We try to do what is right because we love and want to please our Father in Heaven, not because someone is forcing us to obey.
