M. Russell Ballard Quotes
Sometimes we go so focused on bringing people to the meetinghouse that we forget we are supposed to be bringing them to Christ.
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
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While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.
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By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.
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I lived in Brooklyn from 2007 to 2012 but for the last few years have resided in Austin, Texas, where my world - especially the world of downtown - is predominantly white.
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I've had self-esteem issues for a really, really long time. Plenty of people think I'm ugly, and plenty of people don't. But there's a moment when I'm modeling where I forget about my self-esteem issues and focus on what the photographer's telling me - and I feel pretty. And in that sense, it's selfish.
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The great sin was adopting the 21st Century's Socialism, something that not even its founder, Ditrich knows exactly what it is, though he says it is under construction.
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I get some heat for what English people call 'overproduction.' I don't think my older stuff was overproduced, but I do think that sound has dated.
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To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
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I do what I believe the Lord did, and that is walk in love with all mankind, which I don't see a lot of Christians doing. Christians can be so judgmental that it can turn off people who are considering converting. It makes me a little embarrassed, to tell you the truth, when I hear Christians criticizing others.
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Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.
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Whatever people thought the first time they held a portable phone the size of a shoe in their hands, it was nothing like where we are now, accustomed to having all knowledge at our fingertips.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.
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I have been afraid of guns, I have sworn I would never use a gun on another person and so did not need one, and I have wanted to deny the existence of evil.
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I know that I've played a lot of comedic roles. It's a visual medium. When you get one role, you start to get cast in that role for awhile because that's what people have seen you do, and have hopefully seen you do it successfully.
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Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
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The power chords in 'Come Sail Away' were super heavy to me as a kid. Metal? No. Hard rock? At times, for sure.
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Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.
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Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.
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I had a small part in 'Pineapple Express.'
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But I wish they would make a musical of some kind. I miss musicals so much. You don't see them anymore.
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In the latter half of the last century the impact of the expanding influence of Western culture and economic system brought about in China a severe conflict.
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The idea that people are nutritionally deprived because they don't eat grain has no scientific basis.
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Sometimes we go so focused on bringing people to the meetinghouse that we forget we are supposed to be bringing them to Christ.
