M. Russell Ballard Quotes
Free and open expression coupled with visionary leadership generally encourages good decision-making.
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Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.
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I try very hard to handle things equally: ideas, materials, and images.
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I like to dress for my body type and for my coloring.
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I'm doing my best to mindfully raise my son to feel safe and encouraged to express himself.
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I know having a Jason Bourne all alone in a field firing at bad guys is much more dramatic, but it's not real.
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I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!
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In time we grow older, we grow wiser, we grow smarter, and we're better. And I feel like I'm becoming more seasoned, although I don't have my salt-and-pepper hair.
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I always loved all kinds of music. I would watch musicals a lot as a kid, on TV, watch the Fred Astaire movies. I'd watch 'The Wizard of Oz.' I was a big Jerry Lewis fan, and they'd have these big bands and someone singing - some siren, or some guy singing some gorgeous song. I was always enamored of that style of music.
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When you cease to dream you cease to live.
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I just love the hours of the theatre, I love the way it operates. I always say that when you're doing a play it's like getting a shot of B12, and when you do television for a long series you need a shot of B12.
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I feel very, very, very intent on only releasing things that I believe are fully worthy.
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It gives me immense pleasure to be trustworthy, faithful, and true – to have the kind of romantic bond that inspires this.
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Maybe it's a little depressing to think that my vision of a perfect world is actually so messed up, but I think it means that I don't really understand what 'perfect' is.
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What hasn't Barbie been? I don't think I can create an occupation that she has not done yet.
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I could do a franchise for the end of everything. 'The End of Dogs,' 'The End of Cats.'
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I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect.
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There was a period where I was a little scared that I'd blown my chance.
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In Africa through the 1990s, with notable exceptions in Senegal and Uganda, nearly all the ruling powers denied they had a problem with AIDS.
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Military leaders aren't made. They are born. To be a good leader, you have to have something in your character to cause people to follow you.
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CGI has fully ruined car crashes. Because how can you be impressed with them now? When you watch them in the '70s, it was real cars, real metal, real blasts. They're really doing it and risking their lives. But I knew CGI was gonna start taking over.
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It is possible to resolve childhood repression safely and without confusion - something that has always been disputed by the most respected schools of thought.
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I really feel like the sky is the limit with the Innocent Criminals today.
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We've had customers from the beginning. The reason people use Dropbox is because they really love it. We think more about who is going to be competing with what we are going to be doing, not with where we started.
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Free and open expression coupled with visionary leadership generally encourages good decision-making.
