Boyd K. Packer Quotes
The study of doctrine and the teaching of doctrine will change behavior more than the study of behavior will change behavior.
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I'm so excited to be working on 'Doctor Who,' as it's such a big and important part of British culture.
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The fact is, beneath the hype, Iraqis will soon appreciate American help and idealism far more than French perfidy. It is never wrong to be on the side of freedom - never.
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I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
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I'd probably describe my sense of humor as 'twisted,' I guess. It's not hard to make me laugh, especially when I'm surrounded by my close friends, especially my bandmates.
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A community having the breadth and scope of a people still cannot claim to be an ethnic community unless and until there emerges from its mentality a distinctive culture particularized by the community's special character.
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It's funny how the smallest things I've done speak the loudest about me, but I like that.
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I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons.
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The one thing that's changed for 'That Metal Show' is that it's now global; it's now on in places outside of America.
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You know the actor John Garfield? In one movie he walked up to this train station, the ticket booth, and the guy says, 'Yes, where are you going?' And he says, 'I want a ticket to nowhere.' I thought: that's it. The freedom to do that. I want a ticket to nowhere.
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'Tis no sin to cheat the devil.
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I went to the opening of 'Sister Act,' and I had such a great time. I had no idea what it was about, and I had never seen the movies. But I heard the show went through some major last-minute craziness in previews, and man, opening night was really fun and really entertaining.
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Let's face it: fitness is boring. But it's critical to be extremely dedicated to whatever you decide to take up to achieve a desired result. There's no way you are going to get there without dedication, which is the key for me.
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Do not mistake a crowd of big wage-earners for the leisure class.
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We are created in the image of our heavenly parents; we are God's spirit children. Therefore, we have a vast capacity for love - it is part of our spiritual heritage.
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Before I was through my teens, I had been introduced and exposed to artists who would, in later years, become legendary.
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I started out in the 'Cure' reflecting things that I thought were important, and it's reached a point where it takes over and becomes the thing that is important.
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Many scholars are not used to perceiving natural knowledge expressed in mythological language. If the study of fossils was not mentioned by Aristotle or Thucydides, and it wasn't, then it just didn't exist for many classicists and ancient historians.
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It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.
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We're more sexually repressed than men, having been given a much more strict puritanical code of behavior than men ever have.
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The psychological trauma of losing a job can be as great as the trauma of a divorce.
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Beauty is one in the universe, and, whatever form it assumes, it always arouses a religious feeling in the hearts of mankind.
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I'm the type of person who can get a feel for what you need and what I need to do to push you to get you to a breaking point, where you realize that you can't go on this way anymore, that the reason you're heavy is because you're ignoring all the stuff that's going on inside.
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The study of doctrine and the teaching of doctrine will change behavior more than the study of behavior will change behavior.
