M. Russell Ballard Quotes
We cannot hope to build the Church and to bring hearts and souls to Christ without using every resource the Lord has given to help us take advantage of our opportunities and address the obstacles standing in our way.
Quotes to Explore
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Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school.
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I happen to miss the Constitution; I thought it was a good document.
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I suffer greatly from nerves. I have stage-fright badly, and it gets worse, but the stage is still my life.
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We should honor Mother Earth with gratitude; otherwise our spirituality may become hypocritical.
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I loved fairy tales as a kid, so that's where my mind gravitates.
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The beauty about living in Atlanta is that there aren't too many paparazzi here; you can just relax. And that really works for me and my children.
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
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Our leaders are acting like lemmings.
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Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere.
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I wouldn't mind having my heart broken because it would mean that I had that much feeling connected to somebody. And that would be really great.
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I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did.
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I had my father, and he was an amazing man and an amazing role model, so I always wanted to mirror that.
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It's easy to get published once you have written a really good book and the hard part, 99 percent of what you need to worry about, is really finishing it.
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'The Voice' was the first real job I've ever had that wasn't just messing around with music.
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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I am what they call a chubby-skinny guy. I appear to be normal and have the look of an in-shape man, but if we were to go to a pool party I would go with my shirt on.
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I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'
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I tolerate my faults but not at all other people's.
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None of us really understood exactly how much Star Wars would affect us for the rest of our lives.
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I was born in Argentina, June 13, 1943. I brought up my parents very well, so they let me come to America to study at Princeton University.
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We don't expect every operator to be Christian, but we tell them we do expect them to operate on Christian principles.
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I have a lot of confidence, but little Self-Esteem. This has given me a tremendous creative spark because it forced me to keep proving myself.
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We cannot hope to build the Church and to bring hearts and souls to Christ without using every resource the Lord has given to help us take advantage of our opportunities and address the obstacles standing in our way.
