Boyd K. Packer Quotes
Husbands and wives should understand that their first calling-from which they will never be released-is to one another and THEN to their children.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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You only mature when you face problems you can't deal with.
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I'll tell you something: my dad was a nuclear engineer and he was really bright, and I've always said that because of negotiating at such a young age with my dad, it was really such a gift because I could then negotiate with very difficult personalities - and not end up being the scapegoat. I learned to really pick and choose my battles.
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
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I got to do a lot of good things at a young age. I really kind of knocked out my bucket list when I was really young.
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Many people find themselves with illness as they become successful: higher blood pressure and diabetes.
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I think that's what really a substantial work is, it's forever. It's the truth now and it was the truth then, and it will be the truth tomorrow.
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Tell your wife often how terrific she looks.
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My doctors warned me repeatedly that if you don't stay positive, you don't do well.
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Without a musket to raise, a barricade to storm, a flag to wave, the question hit me in the face like the cold air: 'Who am I?'
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Acting is everybody's favorite second job.
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I love the Beatles.
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The great thing about Watergate is, is that the system worked. The American system worked. The press did its job. We did what we were supposed to do.
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It was the students who entered kindergarten in 2011 who are - and I am weighing my words carefully - the sacrificed generation. It is they who have paid a high price for the politics of yesterday - that is to say, the government of Mr. Fillon.
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Looking at yourself in a mirror isn’t exactly a study of life.
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I can't read all the books I want to read, I can't watch all the phenomena that interest me in the world. The work calls me, and sometimes I wonder whether this is an obsession and I should drop it, or it's a necessity I'm obliged to fulfill.
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In the case of 'News Radio,' I loved that show. I loved the actors and the producers, but I was longing very much for something more to sink my teeth into me. I think it was an incredibly smart show, but I found myself on the peripheral of a lot of it.
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It's the philosophies of being an athlete that carry me today.
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Violence against women and children resembles an epidemic. It has spread through society, sparing no social group or class.
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Certainly, by providing individuals coming out of institutions with ways to become productive citizens, we reduce recidivism. What that means is we reduce crime. There are fewer victims when individuals have options - when they have job skills, when they have life skills, we break the cycle of children following their parents into institutions.
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From their teenage years on, children are considerably more capable of causing parents unhappiness than bringing them happiness. That is one reason parents who rely on their children for happiness make both their children and themselves miserable.
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I'm so proud, and it feels brilliant to be a world champion.
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Husbands and wives should understand that their first calling-from which they will never be released-is to one another and THEN to their children.
