M. Russell Ballard Quotes
What we need now is the greatest generation of young adults in the history of the Church. We need your whole heart and soul. In other words, it's time to raise the bar not only for missionaries but also for returned missionaries and for your entire generation.
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If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!
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Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of the times; it qualifies them to furnish in their own personality a good bit of the motive power to the mad pace.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money?
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Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.
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I like to sit down every day and not know where the book is going. I have no idea where the book is going to go or how it's going to end as I'm writing it.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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I redefined how I ate and exercised and have continued to keep that up because it feels great.
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
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The first job I ever had was singing in a jazz club when I was like 15 with my friend, and we earned like 70 bucks. We were like, 'Oh my God!'
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Mister Cee's a legend, man.
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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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One who doesn't throw the dice can never expect to score a six.
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I'm most excited about all of the non-currency uses of the block chain's ledger-ordering ability. I have no idea which ones will turn out to be successful, but I'm glad all of that experimenting is happening.
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To play four hands requires two people who have great affinity for each other.
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The only danger about websites, you know, is people who remember something you did or said thirty or forty years ago, and bring it up against you, so you're going for a job and you don't get it.
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Miguel has this Prince, Marvin Gaye, old-school feel that I love.
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For me, restrictions are not always negative. Restrictions can push creativity. I like restrictions.
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Without the media, the American people won't have the type of information they need to hold their leaders to account. The relationship between government and media has always been strained, and I think most of the time that's a healthy strain.
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There's a lot of distrust of the United States, and I certainly see that. But at the same time, everything that I've seen is that the U.S. is a genuine force for good in the world.
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Create and stir other people to create.
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When I'm Los Angeles, it's work. That's what I'm there for is work.
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What we need now is the greatest generation of young adults in the history of the Church. We need your whole heart and soul. In other words, it's time to raise the bar not only for missionaries but also for returned missionaries and for your entire generation.
