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'd like to produce. I'd like to come up with ideas and collaborate with people and directors and writers that I like, be a part of movies that have the same idea that the movies that impacted me have. I'd like to be able to do that for people.
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Change will not come from above, it will come from below, from the small and medium size businesspeople. They do dare to show their faces. They applaud us and help us financially.
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I do believe the most important thing I can do now is to help young people understand the past and prepare for the future.
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In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?
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Paul Bearer was very influential in the early stages of my career. He constantly hounded me and I just think he realized the potential that was there. He convinced me that I was in the right place and doing the right thing.
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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.
