L. Tom Perry Quotes
One of the greatest weaknesses in most of us is our lack of faith in ourselves. One of our common failings is to depreciate our tremendous worth.
Quotes to Explore
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The options are war versus peace, and I am delighted that, so far, it appears that peaceful negotiation has won the day.
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We have lost the idea that something can be secret because it is valuable, not because it's shameful. If you share everything with everybody, what have you got for yourself? I tweet and I blog, but I save a lot for myself. Not because I am ashamed.
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So, I get a kick out of working with the media.
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What a cool job to be part of - whether it's doing lighting or acting or serving food on set. You're part of telling a story that hopefully has an essential component, and that's super exciting to me.
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I have so many pairs of oxfords; it's ridiculous. It started because at my school you have to wear oxfords for our uniform, but after I got my first pair, I realized they were really comfortable, so they became my regular walking shoes, too.
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Identify your niche and dominate it. And when I say dominate, I just mean work harder than anyone else could possibly work at it.
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It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.
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I'm blessed. I have a 13-year-old girl's eye and a 14 year-old boy's eye. I've been given the gift of sight by people who decided to donate organs. I try to do as much organ-donor work as I can.
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In western countries, there are roles written for older actors. Films are made on them, including love stories.
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Today we know that centralization and big bureaucracies have not, as promised, been the answer for promoting better opportunities for society.
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The turkey has a destiny which ends on San Martino's day.
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The journey matters as much as the goal.
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I didn't grow up a huge fan of the Western genre because there was never a female character to relate to or look up to.
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When you're young, you're always concerned about how you're being seen and how you're being criticized.
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Why movies are so powerful is because you are right in there and you stay in there until they want you to come out, and then you've really gone somewhere.
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There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid regime of South Africa.
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Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.
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It is from the traditional family that we absorb those universal ideals and principles which are the teaching of Jesus, the bedrock of our religious faith. We are taught the difference between right and wrong, and about the law, just punishment and discipline.
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Bush is giving the rich a tax cut instead of putting that cut in the pockets of working people.
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Diamanda Galás, the avant-weird performance artist... 'The devil's wife,' someone calls her. Faith No More loves Diamanda Galás.
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When you say "Yes" to something, you include something you do want in your experience. When you say "No" to something, you include something you don't want in your experience.
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T.V. is the place to do the kind of films that were done in the 40s and 50s: the little guy against the system. There are so many opportunities in T.V. to do more character pieces. Everything is so hard-edged in features.
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The more I make stuff, the more I become aware of when I feel like I'm making bullshit or feel like I'm making something I can stand behind.
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One of the greatest weaknesses in most of us is our lack of faith in ourselves. One of our common failings is to depreciate our tremendous worth.
