Orson Pratt Quotes
On the 1st day of December, 1830, I was confirmed, and in accordance with the word of the Lord I was ordained an Elder under the hands of the Prophet.
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Our franchises have never been healthier. Our league, in terms of its economic footing, has never been healthier.
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I think in every picture that I've ever made. Everything that I've done torments me. I really would like another chance except I'd be too embarrassed to ever really try to do them again and no one would want to see the same movie just done differently.
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So many people witness atrocities and can't take their eyes away from them, but that doesn't mean they're good.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.
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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
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We are two brothers: I am a doctor; my brother is an engineer.
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Billionaires like the Koch brothers, casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, and political puppet master Karl Rove should not be able to buy our elections. Secret money should not be able to drown out the voices of the American people and sell our Democracy to the highest bidder.
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In the '70s... there were rock players, and there were jazz players.
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Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace.
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I'm always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I'm going to get up in the morning.
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There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair.
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Most people who aspire to be president don't have a foreign policy and national security background. The exception was certainly Hillary Clinton.
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Power is, in its nature, encroaching; and such is the human make that men who are vested with a share of it are generally inclined to take more than it was intended they should have.
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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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I'm from working-class, blue-collar America, and I don't believe that people in that socioeconomic strata wait until they're 40 to have children.
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As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.
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I designed all the characters, anyway, and Frank Doyle was doing all the writing. I didn't have any more input on what direction they were going to go with Josie.
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She’s wonderful. Tell her I’ve never seen such beautiful hands. I wonder what she sees in you.” Waddington, smiling, translated the question. “She says I’m good.” “As if a woman ever loved a man for his virtue,” Kitty mocked.
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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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The history of Europe over the last several centuries provides clear evidence of the transformative power of commerce.
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There might be a proper age to know how to tell a story, but there's no proper age to start telling them.
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When I see someone who is starved, they don't look alert. They don't have boundless energy. If you're too skinny, it looks like you're near death.
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On the 1st day of December, 1830, I was confirmed, and in accordance with the word of the Lord I was ordained an Elder under the hands of the Prophet.
